Tommy

“Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones

“I am thinking of the dancing body's magnificent and ostentatious scorn. This is how we offer ourselves, enter heaven, enter speaking: we say with motion, in space, This is what life's done so far down here; this is all and what and everything it's managed - this body, these bodies, that body - so what do you think, Heaven? What do you fucking think?”
― Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories