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“But to be drawn into Charlie’s world was to become part of a very deep and ongoing conversation, to be pulled along the currents of his innermost thoughts and conflicts, and to be attended to intimately in ways of the heart and mind—and soul, if I’m honest. I had only to send or say three or four words to him for the faucet of his intimacy to turn on. He was right there, his rushing closeness right there. And then suddenly it was not.”
― My Nemesis
― My Nemesis
“But there’s nothing easier than learning to hate women. There is no shortage of teachers. Fathers teach it, the state teaches it, the legal system teaches it, the market teaches it, and culture, and propaganda. But the best teacher, according to my colleague Bia, is pornography.”
― The Simple Art of Killing a Woman
― The Simple Art of Killing a Woman
“In this way my love for him mirrored my mother's love for my father, which, despite their separation, had endured--call it habit, call it time, call it memory, the memory of love. It's not so easy, after wall, to cut that invisible thread.”
― Thirst for Salt
― Thirst for Salt
“If love and comfort are combined to mean a sort of ring of safety, then anything that endangers that safety, like a sister or brother or parents all dressed up to go out and leave us all alone, will clot our innocent, childish, valentine natures with murderous rages.”
― Black Swans: Stories
― Black Swans: Stories
“It never really goes away, the longing for the life not lived, because isn’t that part of how we come to know ourselves too? Through what we lack as much as what we have, all we dream but do not hold. Some desires have no resolution.”
― Thirst for Salt
― Thirst for Salt
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