“I didn’t get anxious about shit. I made shit anxious about me.”
― Things We Left Behind
― Things We Left Behind
“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
“Yes, the world makes room for goodness and decency, he thinks: and the task of life is to show goodness to others, not to complain about their failings.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“Yes I would like he thinks to live in such a way that I could vanish into thin air at any time without affecting anyone and in fact I feel that for me this would constitute the perfect and perhaps the only acceptable life. At the same time I want desperately to be loved.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“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
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