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“Mr Coffey, one might make the case that for one man to be circumspect and for another to be whimsical is a beauty of the world bestowed upon us by our Lord God of the same weight as the rainbow.”
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“I have a sort of . . . thing, I suppose, for certain words. They spark inside me, somehow, turning me to touchpaper, but I don't know what they are until someone says them.”
― Waiting for the Flood
― Waiting for the Flood
“This is the story of my life: standing on the edges of things and worrying, when I'm supposed to just walk through them.”
― Waiting for the Flood
― Waiting for the Flood
“A homosexual is for life, not just for Christmas.”
― Glitterland
― Glitterland
“The cottage pie was about as wholesome and straightforward as you could get. It was food for winter evenings and happy days. And the salad was rich, complicated, a little bit sweet, and seemed to be trying way too hard to be impressive. We'd both served each other a metaphor.”
― Glitterland
― Glitterland
“But I suppose it comes down to whether you think dominance and submission are about acts or about people.”
― For Real
― For Real
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