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Being gay didn’t bother Simon. It was being attracted to boys that was the problem. Because boys were awful. They seemed intent on making his life miserable in order to make their own more amusing, and the indignity of finding them
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“I assume you are referring to my use of language which, when I am worried or not concentrating, slips back to where it was before I began using words and phrases from books. I do this with care, however, because once, while talking to my grandmother, I quoted directly from Edgar Allan Poe, and she took a nasty turn.”
― Finding a Way
― Finding a Way
“Carefully, stealthily, Caleb added this photograph to the portraits of Russell and Julia. Then, calm as anything, he slipped them into his backpack, tucking them in the front cover of John Halifax, Gentleman, so they wouldn’t get crumpled. Russell needed them more than the archive, anyway.”
― The Sleeping Soldier
― The Sleeping Soldier
“What do you people have against punctuation, Caleb? You haven’t lived till you’ve used a dash and a semicolon in the same sentence.”
― The Sleeping Soldier
― The Sleeping Soldier
“Of course you sing different songs than we did, you have a different president, you dress in different fashions. I knew these things would change. But I would have thought feelings were feelings and always the same, and it turns out they are as changeable as popular songs. Maybe that is why the songs change,” Russell said. “Each generation needs its own songs, because each generation has a different heart.”
― The Sleeping Soldier
― The Sleeping Soldier
“What had it been like for those boys, that transitional generation? Lying in bed, whispering secrets with a best friend, holding hands, kissing cheeks, age-old patterns of friendship that no longer seemed quite so innocent… Why hadn’t they fought harder to keep it? Why had it been taken away at all?”
― The Sleeping Soldier
― The Sleeping Soldier
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