Alex Doenau

“But I had no idea what I looked like. Children may feel epic and large to theyselves and yet be only scraps to view.”
― Sebastian Barry, Days Without End

“His people had hogs there till the bottom fell out of hogs. The bottom was always falling out of something in America far as I could see. So it was with the world, restless, kind of brutal. Always going on. Not waiting for no man.”
― Sebastian Barry, Days Without End

“It would never have occurred to him that in placing the apricot in my palm he was giving me his ass to hold or that, in biting the fruit, I was also biting into that part of his body that must have been fairer than the rest because it never apricates - and near it, if I dared to bite that far, his apricock.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Pleasure is an egg.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale