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“She said you need plenty of alone time. That sometimes you...” “I what?” “That you explode if people try to deprive you of that.” I hoped Patricia would fall in the Seine. Eat a bad moule. Get lost, permanently, in a wine cave.
“There’s nothing more tedious than a grown man blaming his parents, birth or otherwise, for all the things that have gone wrong in his life.”
― The Heart's Invisible Furies
― The Heart's Invisible Furies
“You could drown in two inches of water. Maybe grief was the same.”
― The Vanishing Half
― The Vanishing Half
“Every man is afraid of women as far as I can see,” said Julian, displaying an understanding of the universe far beyond his years. “That’s true,” she said. “But only because most men are not as smart as women and yet they continue to hold all the power. They fear a change of the world order.”
― The Heart's Invisible Furies
― The Heart's Invisible Furies
“What you know about women,” replied Maude, “could be written in large font on the back of a postage stamp and there’d still be room for the Lord’s Prayer. For all your”
― The Heart's Invisible Furies
― The Heart's Invisible Furies
“It was a difficult time to be Irish, a difficult time to be twenty-one years of age and a difficult time to be a man who was attracted to other men. To be all three simultaneously required a level of subterfuge and guile that felt contrary to my nature.”
― The Heart's Invisible Furies
― The Heart's Invisible Furies
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