Annie Dillard Quote

It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.


The Annie Dillard reader (ed. Harpercollins, 1994)


It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.

It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.

It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.

It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.