Lindy

“...the heart is an organ of fire.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“The past beats inside me like a second heart.”
― John Banville, The Sea

“A postcard. Neat handwriting fills the rectangle.

Half my days I cannot bear to touch you.
The rest of my time I feel like it doesn’t matter if I will ever see you again. It isn’t the morality, it’s how much you can bear.

No date. No name attached.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“Given the world that he created, it would be an impiety against God to believe in him.”
― John Banville, The Sea