Lucia Berlin Quotes

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I'm having a hard time writing about Sunday. Getting the long hollow feeling of Sundays. No mail and faraway lawn mowers, the hopelessness.

Lucia Berlin

The only reason I have lived so long is that I let go of my past. Shut the door on grief on regret on remorse.

Lucia Berlin

The moon. There's no other moon like one on a clear New Mexico night. It rises over the Sandias and soothes the miles and miles of barren desert with all the quiet whiteness of a first snow.

Lucia Berlin

"Love makes you miserable," our mama said. "You soak your pillow crying yourself to sleep, you steam up phone booths with your tears, your sobs make the dog holler, you smoke two cigarettes at once."

Lucia Berlin

No one at my house ever talked about stars, probably didn't even know that in summer there were sometimes meteor showers in the northern sky.

Lucia Berlin

Lucia Berlin

Lucia Berlin

Born: November 12, 1936

Died: November 12, 2004 (aged 68)

Bio: Lucia Brown Berlin was an American short story writer. She had a small, devoted following, but did not reach a mass audience during her lifetime.

Known for:

Where I live now (1999)
Homesick (1990)
So long (1993)
Angel's Laundromat (1981)

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