“When I’m a single woman in London I will be extremely elegant and slim and wear black dresses and drink martinis and will only meet men at book launches and at exhibition openings.”
― Everything I Know About Love
― Everything I Know About Love
“We reached for each other, and I thought of how many nights I had lain awake loving him in silence.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“He hated excessive displays of emotion, tall women wearing heels, or being too loud. So basically everything that made up my personality at the time. He thought I was a disaster, I thought he was a square.”
― Everything I Know About Love
― Everything I Know About Love
“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
Margaret’s 2025 Year in Books
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