“The act of living is different all through. Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.”
― A Grief Observed
― A Grief Observed
“Why should the separation (if nothing else) which so agonizes the lover who is left behind be painless to the lover who departs?”
― A Grief Observed
― A Grief Observed
“Kelly is the only one who knew me when we were both young and pretty, when we were impulsive and the world seemed full of men, and we would find ourselves sometimes transported by sex, picked up and carried into situations that, in the muddle of memory, seem a bit like movie scenes. She is the only one who would understand that I am relieved to find a sliver of this girl still inside me. Relieved to find that, although older and more suspicious and heavy with marriage, under the right circumstances I can still be picked up and carried.”
― Love in Mid Air
― Love in Mid Air
“love something I don’t possess.”
― Adultery
― Adultery
“The sun was hot on his back, but he barely noticed. It paled by comparison to the warmth that was seeping into his soul.”
― One Lavender Ribbon
― One Lavender Ribbon
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