Chronic Blood Loss

Famous quotes containing the words chronic, blood and/or loss:

“Only then can the chronic inattention
Of our lives drape itself around us, conciliatory....”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“The blood congealing
black
between the pleased fingers.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is troubled by some buried but ineradicable suspicion that things had better work here, because here, beneath that immense bleached sky, is where we run out of continent.”
—Joan Didion (b. 1935)