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Books leave gestures in the body; a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of leaving, hesitations. Books leave certain sounds, a certain pacing; mostly they leave the elusive, which is

Books leave gestures in the body; a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of leaving, hesitations. Books leave certain sounds, a certain pacing; mostly they leave the elusive, which is all the story. They leave much more than the words.

Dionne Brand
Moving, Book, Eye
Dionne Brand (2012). “A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging”, p.227, Vintage Canada

I felt the unordinary romance of / women who love women for the first time.

Dionne Brand
Romance, Firsts, Sexuality
Dionne Brand (1990). “No language is neutral”, McClelland & Stewart

If I see someone I see the ghost of them, the air around them, and where they’ve been. If I see a city I see it’s living ghostliness—the stray looks, the dying hands. I see it’s needs and its discomforts locked in apartments.

Dionne Brand
Air, Hands, Cities
Dionne Brand (2012). “A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging”, p.122, Vintage Canada

Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display.

Dionne Brand
Fashion, Communication, Language
Dionne Brand (2012). “A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging”, p.64, Vintage Canada

Cities collect people, stray and lost and deliberate arrivants.

Dionne Brand
Cities, People, Lost
Dionne Brand (2012). “A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging”, p.78, Vintage Canada

People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death.

Dionne Brand
Believe, Passion, Inevitability Of Death
Dionne Brand (2012). “A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging”, p.18, Vintage Canada

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