“In the years to come, Robin would return so many times to this night. He was forever astonished by its mysterious alchemy, by how easily two badly socialized, restrictively raised strangers had transformed into kindred spirits in a span of minutes.”
― Babel
― Babel
“Be selfish," he whispered. "Be brave.”
― Babel
― Babel
“I suppose we decided to be girls because being boys seems to require giving up half your brain cells.”
― Babel
― Babel
“They were men at Oxford; they were not Oxford men. But the enormity of this knowledge was so devastating, such a vicious antithesis to the three golden days they’d blindly enjoyed, that neither of them could say it out loud.”
― Babel
― Babel
“But the future, vague as it was frightening, was easily ignored for now; it paled so against the brilliance of the present”
― Babel
― Babel
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