“Love is for those who know the griefs of time, for it goes hand in hand with loss. An eternity, so burdened, would be a torment. And yet—” He broke off, drew breath. “Yet what else to call it, this terror and this joy?”
― The Winter of the Witch
― The Winter of the Witch
“Do I not live? Badly, I know, but I live.”
― The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
― The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
“I am lost on a sea of hunger, blue and black and heaving and full five fathoms deep below and rarely, rarely do I feel anything besides hungry, rarely, rarely does a jolt of feeling or emotion pierce the hide of my hunger, and never, never have I been able to live the life God presumably gave me to live, to dance and think and remember and kiss, no, all my life I have stood at the threshold of my life waiting to be let in”
― The Glutton
― The Glutton
“precondition of true beauty is surprise, he thinks: real beauty must seem as though it has fallen abruptly from the sky, or else come from deep inside the earth—some place where it had shone secretly and unseen, until you came along and saw it.”
― The Glutton
― The Glutton
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