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“The odds had been stacked against us from the start: we had no manual, no one to show us the way. Not one example of a happy couple made up of boys. How were we supposed to know what to do? Did we even believe that we deserved to get away with happiness?”
― Swimming in the Dark
― Swimming in the Dark
“We haven’t met properly,” I said, as she threaded me through housekeeping carts vomiting fluffy white towels. “People call me Ern.” “As in, cremated?” “It’s short for Ernest.”
― Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
― Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
“Selfish. Growing into yourself is nothing but that.”
― Swimming in the Dark
― Swimming in the Dark
“I had always liked the act of leaving, the expanse between departure and arrival when you’re seemingly nowhere, defined by another kind of time.”
― Swimming in the Dark
― Swimming in the Dark
“Because you were right when you said that people can’t always give us what we want from them; that you can’t ask them to love you the way you want. No one can be blamed for that. And the odds had been stacked against us from the start: we had no manual, no one to show us the way. Not one example of a happy couple made up of boys. How were we supposed to know what to do? Did we even believe that we deserved to get away with happiness?”
― Swimming in the Dark
― Swimming in the Dark
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