The spaces between Quotes

“Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.”

“(2002) In Rome, month upon month, I struggled with how to structure the book about my father (He already had the water, he just had to discover jars). At one point I laid each chapter out on the terrazzo floor, eighty-three in all, arranged them like the map of an imaginary city. Some of the piles of paper, I imagined, were freestanding buildings, some were clustered into neighborhoods, and some were open space. On the outskirts, of course, were the tenements--abandoned, ramshackled. The spaces between the piles were the roads, the alleyways, the footpaths, the rivers. The bridges to other neighborhoods, the bridges out...In this way I could get a sense if one could find their way through the book, if the map I was creating made sense, if it was a place one would want to spend some time in. If one could wander there, if one could get lost.”

“The spaces between stars are where the work of the universe is done.”

“History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.”

“We kiss with our eyes closed but our senses open, infusing the spaces between with the elements of the other.”

“Ego is the most important aspect of our life in the sense if we use it against the spaces between our hearts.”

“We are all just humans trying to survive in this crazy world, in the spaces between birth and death.”

“I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.”

“It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down.It is not the houses. It is the spaces between the houses.It is not the streets that exist. It is the streets that no longer exist.”