“It is difficult - it is very difficult, to befriend where you wish to consume, to find those who, when they ask Do I have you still, when they end a letter with Yours, mean it in any substantive way.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
“Just because it is in Malibu's nature to burn, so was it in one particular person's nature to set fire and walk away.”
― Malibu Rising
― Malibu Rising
“I'll be all the poets, I'll kill them all and take each one's place in turn, and every time love's written in all the strands it will be to you.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
“...'I, for example, have several dear friends... Now am I in love with all of these people?'
I continued to press my point: 'Yes,' I said. 'You are a little in love with all those people you care for.”
― Madonna in a Fur Coat
I continued to press my point: 'Yes,' I said. 'You are a little in love with all those people you care for.”
― Madonna in a Fur Coat
“It occured to me that anyway one more Sunday was over, that Maman was buried now, that I was going back to work, and that, really, nothing had changed.”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger
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