Matthew Bapty

“I avoided you, so that you couldn’t avoid me.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, 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.”
― André Aciman, Find Me

“We were doing everything we could to avoid the moment we would both go our separate ways.”
― Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything

“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.”
― Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe