“No, Pixie, you don’t understand. I could have lost you last night. I’m not going to let that happen again. Ever. If you want ten kids, we’ll have them. If you want a six-story library full of medieval first editions, I’ll buy every book for you. If you want to raise a family here, I’ll move back and feed your asshole cat every morning. If you decide you want to throw it all away and move to a tasteful hut on a tropical beach, I’ll build the fucking hut.”
― Things We Left Behind
― Things We Left Behind
“To do what little good he can with his life. To ask for nothing more, to bow his head, pitifully grateful, God’s humble and grateful servant. Can he imagine anything less like himself? And yet here he is, defeated, relieved, forgiving everything, praying only to be forgiven.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“You drive me insane. I donʼt want to be with you, but all you have to do is walk into a room and I canʼt help myself.”
― Things We Left Behind
― Things We Left Behind
“She has been contained before, contained and directed, by the trappings of ordinary life. Now she no longer feels contained or directed by anything at all. Life has slipped free of its netting. She can do very strange things now, she can find herself a very strange person. Young men can invite her into holiday cottages for sexual reasons. It means nothing. That isn't true: it means something, but the meaning is unfamiliar.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“If my distance couldn’t protect her, my proximity would. From now on, I would be Sloane’s shadow.”
― Things We Left Behind
― Things We Left Behind
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