“I avoided you, so that you couldn’t avoid me.”
― Swimming in the Dark
― Swimming in the Dark
“Everything in my life was merely prologue until now, merely delay, merely pastime, merely waste of time until I came to know you.”
― Find Me
― Find Me
“The tilapia has been drowned in a garlic and chilli and coriander sauce, so many exposed white bones in its charred and thorny dorsal fin that they look like the ivory keys in the warped piano organ the devil plays in hell.”
― Boy Swallows Universe
― Boy Swallows Universe
“...as if, one lover gone, I was opening up for an immediate replacement. Smack habit, love habit - what's the difference? They can both kill you. For the bus journey I fell in love with a woman who smiled at me. The motion of the bus made her thick mop of fair curls tremble. We talked about desperados.
'I am fatally attracted to them', I said. 'In fact, I probably am one'.”
― Monkey Grip
'I am fatally attracted to them', I said. 'In fact, I probably am one'.”
― Monkey Grip
“I saw the bumpy shape of my skull, I saw myself shorn and revealed. I wandered in a dream around the city, glimpsing in shop windows a strange creature with my face.”
― Monkey Grip
― Monkey Grip
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