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“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
“How many hearts need to be stored in boxes for the pain to be transformed into something else? But the pain, he intuits, is the only thing that keeps him breathing. Without the sadness, he has nothing left.”
― Tender Is the Flesh
― Tender Is the Flesh
“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
“His brain warns him that there are words that cover up the world. There are words that are convenient, hygienic. Legal.”
― Tender Is the Flesh
― Tender Is the Flesh
“Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the loop. If I am hungry and I eat and I remain hungry, hunger becomes rage. But to deny fulfillment makes sense of the hunger – I don’t eat, so I am hungry.”
― It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
― It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
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