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Zorrie liked the way they did this, the way it made them look like two halves of the same sentence.
“Ocasionally, I convinced myself I had made it all up - love, attraction, all of it - that I had made it up with everyone I'd ever met.”
― Salt Slow
― Salt Slow
“It is easy enough, of course, to forget that she loves him. On the days between frenzies, when he leaves muddy footprints on the kitchen lino, when he whistles through his teeth. No one, she is sure, is capable of loving all the time, without interruptions or reprieves.”
― Salt Slow
― Salt Slow
“We didn't speak for three days, during which time I became so panicked at the thought of losing her that I sent her a total of thirty-nine hysterically casual messages - a photograph of my breakfast, a quote from a movie, a long text about which of my trains had been delayed that day.”
― Salt Slow
― Salt Slow
“She has a funny impulse to kiss him then, to take his germs or whatever is wrong with him into herself on a long inhalation. A disgusting sort of perversion, love.”
― Salt Slow
― Salt Slow
“She knew herself for what she was: a great failure at solitude. Sluicing through her twenties illuminated only by the glow of terrestrial television, finding much to her dismay at the age of twenty-nine that she longed to be amused and to be longed for. A faint life. Eating apricots and growing bony and forgetting how to talk to people. Loneliness like a taste on the skin.”
― Salt Slow
― Salt Slow
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