#ongoingness

[mournfulroses]

Sarah Manguso, from her book titled "Ongoingness: The End of a Diary," published in 2015

[derangedrhythms]

Nothing's gone, not really. Everything that's ever happened has left its little wound.

Sarah Manguso, from 'Ongoingness: The End of a Diary'

[noodledesk]

To write a diary is to make a series of choices about what to omit, what to forget.

Sarah Manguso, from Ongoingness

[focusedandfearless]

Sarah Manguso, Ongoingness

[yearningheart]

Often I believe I’m working toward a result, but always, once I reach the result, I realize all the pleasure was in planning and executing the path to that result. It comforts me that endings are thus formally unappealing to me—that more than beginning or ending, I enjoy continuing.

Sarah Manguso, Ongoingness: The End of a Diary

[deadpoetsmusings]

Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments—an inability to accept life as ongoing.

Sarah Manguso, Ongoingness: The End of a Diary

[lazyydaisyyy]

Left alone in time, memories harden into summaries. The originals become almost irretrievable.

Sarah Manguso, Ongoingness

[exhaled-spirals]

I started keeping the diary in earnest when I started finding myself in moments that were too full.
 At an art opening in the late eighties, I held a plastic cup of wine and stood in front of a painting next to a friend I loved. It was all too much.

Sarah Manguso, Ongoingness: The End of a Diary