“It had been so much effort, telling myself and making myself believe that coming back from a honeymoon is when marriages start, not when they end.”
― Sorrow and Bliss
― Sorrow and Bliss
“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“She had seen just now what she had only sensed before, that the whole world was ready to be their enemy, and suddenly what she and Carol had together seemed no longer love or anything happy but a monster between them, with each of them caught in a fist.”
― The Price of Salt
― The Price of Salt
“Right now, what I most want to do is write a book, but I know I will never be celebrated for doing so in the same way I would be for having a child.”
― Out of Love
― Out of Love
“You never stop being scared of falling from the top, because when you close your eyes you can still feel the pain from each and every step of the way up.”
― Beartown
― Beartown
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