• I measure my life in sentences pressed out, line by line, like the lustrous ooze on the underside of the snail, the snail's secret open seam, its wound, leaking attar.

    Cynthia Ozick: I measure my life in sentences pressed out, line by line, like the lustrous ooze on the underside of the snail, the snail's secret open seam, its wound, leaking attar.
    Cynthia Ozick (1987). “The Messiah of Stockholm: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf