“in the face of horror, ancient rituals regained their meaning”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“Once you know the end of the story, every part of the story contains that end, and is only a way of reaching it.”
― The Myth of You and Me
― The Myth of You and Me
“They bustled around chatting. It was the first time I listened closely, and I was astonished at how much they had to say, the passion with which they repeated the same thing in ten different ways so as to avoid noticing, in fact, that they had absolutely nothing to say to each other for ages, but human beings need to speak, otherwise they lose their humanity”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“The first time you fall in love, it's like you've created the first love in the universe, and the first time someone you love dies, you grieve the universe's first death. What does it help to be told that what you feel is nothing new?”
― The Myth of You and Me
― The Myth of You and Me
“I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering, and that I was human after all.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
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