#accident

My dad died, I write. almost a year ago. Car accident. My hand is shaking; my eyes sting and fill. I add Not his fault before pushing the notebook and pen back across the table, wiping a hand across my cheeks. As he reads, my impulse is to reach out, grab the notebook, run outside, dump it in the trash, bury it in the snow, throw it under the wheels of a passing car - something, something, so I can go back fifteen seconds when this part ofme was still shut away and private. Then I look at Ravi's face again, and the normally white white whites of his eyes are pink. This causes major disruption to my ability to control the flow of my own tears. I see myself when I look at him right now: he's reflecting my sadness, my broken heart, back to me. He takes the pe, writes, and slides it over. You'd think it's something epic from the way it levels my heart. It isn't. I'm really sorry, Jill. Four little words. ↗

— Sara Zarr

#grief #life #sorrow #life

Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#always #clothes #had #i #i think

Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name. ↗

— Alice Meynell

#angel #breath #dominant #entire #habits

Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an accident or the first burst of something wonderful. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#beautiful #burst #comes #first #know

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art. ↗

— Louis Nizer

#art #beautiful #lady #nature #old

There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period. ↗

— Ted Nugent

#alcohol #bad #children #comes #country

Being a display pilot is probably the thing I've been most proud of in my life. Don't really fly anymore now though. I have three small children and as most of my friends were killed in different accidents, I realised that it was probably just a matter of time before I went that way. ↗

— Gary Numan

#anymore #been #before #being #children

If I have a drink in my hand, sometimes it accidentally falls in the direction of the person. ↗

— Jorja Fox

#direction #drink #falls #hand #i

One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#does #goal #mere #study

The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#consider #i #me #myself #novel