Kate O'Hanlon

“There are some people who remain your best friends even if you haven’t seen them for ages, and others with whom you start from scratch every time.”
― Francine Prose, Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932

“He claimed to be a Marxist, the only one of his claims I believed. He had that Marxist passion for oysters and good Sancerre, and that Marxist paralysis when the waiter brought the check. Already it’s obvious how much the Communists got wrong, overbetting on human high-mindedness, lowballing human desire.”
― Francine Prose, Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932

“They went and found somewhere, and had a sorting out, nothing held back. Sometimes nothing less than savage discharge can express, can explain, can release the hard, hard place we're in.”
― Gwyneth Jones, Rainbow Bridge

“The language in which we are speaking is his before it is mine. How different are the words HOME, CHRIST, ALE, MASTER, on his lips and on mine! I cannot speak or write these words without unrest of spirit. His language, so familiar and so foreign, will always be for me an acquired speech. I have not made or accepted its words. My voice holds them at bay. My soul frets in the shadow of his language.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man