Stuart Dybek Quotes

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Sometimes, in a tight game with runners on, digging in at short, ready to break with the ball, a peace I'd never felt before would paralyze the diamond. For a moment of eternal stillness I felt as if I were cocked at the very heart of the Midwest.

Stuart Dybek

Love, it's such a night, laced with running water, irreparable, riddled with a million leaks. A night shaped like a shadow thrown by your absence. Every crack trickles, every overhang drips. The screech of nighthawks has been replaced by the splash of rain. The rain falls from the height of streetlights. Each drop contains its own shattering blue bulb.

Stuart Dybek

Our plans for the future made us laugh and feel close, but those same plans somehow made anything more than temporary between us seem impossible. It was the first time I'd ever had the feeling of missing someone I was still with.

Stuart Dybek

Loaded with note cards for research papers that I was hopelessly behind on, I'd enter the Public Library only to end up wandering around lost, wasting the day.

Stuart Dybek

Stuart Dybek

Stuart Dybek

Born: April 10, 1942 (age 83)

Bio: Stuart Dybek is an American writer of fiction and poetry.

Known for:

The Coast of Chicago (1986)
I Sailed with Magellan (2003)
Ecstatic Cahoots: Fifty Short Stories (2014)
Paper Lantern: Love Stories (2014)
Childhood and Other Neighborhoods (1980)

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