“The thing about remembering is that to recall one memory is to suppress its neighbors. In order to remember you must forget.”
― Self-Portrait with Boy
― Self-Portrait with Boy
“I don't know why we're bothering with Venice, says Jamie. It's just full of Asians taking pictures of everything.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“I had no right to claim him, I knew it. But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Circe
― Circe
“Tenderly, it seemed almost painfully, they smiled at one another, saying nothing, and their questions were the same, am I the one you think about, when we made love were you happy, have I hurt you, do you love me, will you always.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
“I knew she did not love me, not really. I knew that to her I was just a puzzle piece that had to be forced to fit. And yet as she held me too close, squeezed me hard enough to bruise my ribs, as she cried into my hair, as her tears pooled in my ears I felt: this is what it is like to be loved.”
― Self-Portrait with Boy
― Self-Portrait with Boy
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