“Under that sexy cap, he had the brains of bivalve and I was glad not to be the one sleeping with him.”
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“But where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail.”
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“In bed we talked for hours, conversations that spiralled out from observations into grand, abstract theories and back again. (...) I didn't feel with her, like I did with many other people, that while I was talking she was just preparing the next thing she wanted to say.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“Time makes us sentimental. Perhaps, in the end, it is because of time that we suffer.”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.”
― Cat's Eye
― Cat's Eye
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