Und wir sahen, daß nichts von ihrer Welt übrigblieb. Wir waren plötzlich auf furchtbare Weise allein; – und wir mußten allein damit fertig werden.
“It was a light that shone over our faces, our wounds and scars. It was a light so brilliant and white it could have been beamed from heaven, and Brian and I could have been angels, basking in it. But it wasn’t, and we weren’t.”
― Mysterious Skin
― Mysterious Skin
“It was Brian's blood, and for some reason I knew it was pure. No other man I'd held in my arms -and now, not even I- had blood this pure.”
― Mysterious Skin
― Mysterious Skin
“The wonder is that you could start life with nothing, end with nothing, and lose so much in between.”
― Demon Copperhead
― Demon Copperhead
“Tommy put down his armload of flowers on the two little mounds, divided up between them. Saying nothing about it. Then he went back to work. I didn't ask. But that night after we were in bed, he told me what it was for. His parents were buried out in eastern Virginia someplace, so he'd never gotten to see the graves, just like I hadn't ever seen my dad's. I would never have thought to do what Tommy did, though. He just made them up. Eight different homes he'd been in so far, that he could remember. In every one of them he'd left behind a little set of graves.”
― Demon Copperhead
― Demon Copperhead
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