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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.
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John Boyne
“A line came into my mind, something that Hannah Arendt once said about the poet Auden: that life had manifested the heart's invisible furies on his face.”
John Boyne, The Heart's Invisible Furies

John Boyne
“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”
John Boyne, The Heart's Invisible Furies

John Boyne
“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.”
John Boyne, The Heart's Invisible Furies

Paul Murray
“They had sometimes experienced this with adults – surprise that information that they had made available to be viewed by anybody at any time had, in fact, been viewed by somebody.”
Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

John Boyne
“life had manifested the heart’s invisible furies on his face.”
John Boyne, The Heart's Invisible Furies

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