“There is a lot of this kind of sadness here. It slips in like the fog at night. The fog that creeps out of the ocean to survey the land that one day she thinks will eventually be hers.”
― The Seas
― The Seas
“Today I’m the butcher, tomorrow I might be the cattle”
― Tender Is the Flesh
― Tender Is the Flesh
“She had the human look of a domesticated animal.”
― Tender Is the Flesh
― Tender Is the Flesh
“They stand in each other’s arms, already naked and so alive. They glow in the dark like the white flowers, like allegorical statues in a midnight garden. Youth. Love. Stupidity. Lust.”
― It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
― It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
“We wanted more of each other and more life. We were adding on a baby to the house of our love. Like a sunroom, but made of wonder and fear and time and denial. It was the future. We pictured ourselves living there. All the imaginary firsts and the world going on as if it weren't already too late.”
― It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
― It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
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