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“Fathers throw the longer shadows. We get over the mothers, at last, but hardly ever the fathers, she said.”
― Night Boat to Tangier
― Night Boat to Tangier
“The fear of turning into our parents, she said, is what turns us into our fucking parents.”
― Night Boat to Tangier
― Night Boat to Tangier
“There’s no harder person on the planet than a romantic with a broken heart.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“The earth, from here, is like heaven. It flows with colour. A burst of hopeful colour. When we’re on that planet we look up and think heaven is elsewhere, but here is what the astronauts and cosmonauts sometimes think: maybe all of us born to it have already died and are in an afterlife. If we must go to an improbable, hard-to-believe-in place when we die, that glassy, distant orb with its beautiful lonely light shows could well be it.”
― Orbital
― Orbital
“There is a stab of awareness at the beginning and at the end of love, and the feeling precisely replicates—it’s a twinge of cold certainty at either end of the affair, and it is twice terrifying.”
― Night Boat to Tangier
― Night Boat to Tangier
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