“Anyway, he continues, what I really missed in the lockdowns was buying coffee. Sipping a flat white. If my identity is so fragile it depends on a flat white to keep it together, I can’t see the point of those years reading difficult theory and philosophy. Capitalism sold a flat white to me as if it were a cup of freedom.”
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“To separate from love is to live a risk-free life. What’s the point of that sort of life? As I wheeled my electric bike through the park on the way to my writing shed, my hands had turned blue from the cold. I had given up wearing gloves because I was always grappling in the dark for keys. I stopped by the fountain, only to find it had been switched off. A sign from the council read, This fountain has been winterized. I reckoned that is what had happened to me too.”
― The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
― The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
“Some how, some way, the child assuaged the tiny yet eternal yearning for the home Lina once knew where everyone had anything and no one had everything.”
― A Mercy
― A Mercy
“My point is that there is nothing tragic in me knowing that the best days of my life are behind me.”
― Frankie
― Frankie
“It was not that easy to convey to him, a man much older than she was, that the world was her world too.”
― The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
― The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
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