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“I avoided you, so that you couldn’t avoid me.”
― Swimming in the Dark
― Swimming in the Dark
“We were doing everything we could to avoid the moment we would both go our separate ways.”
― The Man Who Saw Everything
― The Man Who Saw Everything
“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
“Dormant true love, there for everybody, just waiting to be found, erupting when the thread of existence collides with chance and the eyes of two lovers meet. Boom. From what I’ve seen of it, true love is hard. Real romance has death in it. It has midnight shakes and flecks of shit across a bedsheet. True love like this dies if it has to wait for fate. True love like this asks lovers to cast aside what is meant to be and work with what is.”
― 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
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