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“I want to say something but shame
prevents me
yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful things
and your tongue were not concocting some evil to say,
shame would not hold down your eyes
but rather you would speak about what is just”
― If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
prevents me
yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful things
and your tongue were not concocting some evil to say,
shame would not hold down your eyes
but rather you would speak about what is just”
― If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
“Too late I realise that she has been the Summer of my life. What a slow and painful death this shall be.”
― Sunburn
― Sunburn
“I don’t know how to be silent when my heart is speaking.”
― White Nights
― White Nights
“A circle looks at a square and sees a badly made circle.”
― Authority
― Authority
“Is this desire? How queer that I, of all people, should not know! But I thought desire smaller, neater; I supposed it bound to its own organs as taste is bound to the mouth, vision to the eye. This feeling haunts and inhabits me, like a sickness. It covers me, like skin.”
― Fingersmith
― Fingersmith
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