“if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when you’re just ready to shut the door of the taxi and have already said goodbye to everyone else and there’s not a thing left to say in this life, then , just this once, turn to me, even in jest, or as an afterthought, which would have meant everything to me when we were together, and, as you did back then, look me in the face, hold my gaze, and call me by your name.”
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“He missed England as if it were a person.”
― In Memoriam
― In Memoriam
“... better to find out once and for all than to spend the rest of the summer, or my life perhaps, arguing with my body...”
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“I predict I will always be in negotiation with my body, what it wants, and what I want of it.”
― How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
― How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
“It was the Hell you’d feared in childhood, come to devour the children. It was treading over the corpses of your friends so that you might be killed yourself. It was the congealed evil of a century.”
― In Memoriam
― In Memoriam
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