The girl was remarkably skilled. But her time on the streets had also left her with remarkable scars. Hopefully he would be able to encourage the skills while helping heal the scars.
“Once you meet your soulmate, there’s no point pretending, is there? Feeling of solace you get when she’s near you. To live the right life.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“You think you can vanish into thin air and it won't affect me?
Yes I would like he thinks to live in such a way that I could vanish into thin air at any time without affecting anyone and in fact I feel that for me this would constitute the perfect and perhaps the only acceptable life. At the same time I want desperately to be loved. Aloud he says: Whatever, I don't know.”
― Intermezzo
Yes I would like he thinks to live in such a way that I could vanish into thin air at any time without affecting anyone and in fact I feel that for me this would constitute the perfect and perhaps the only acceptable life. At the same time I want desperately to be loved. Aloud he says: Whatever, I don't know.”
― Intermezzo
“After weeks of sleeplessness he wakes now only to hear her turning on the coffee machine in the morning, low pummeling sound through the wall. Peace so intense he could weep. Just to inhabit lightly the space that is cleared for him by her tactful silence.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“But I’m very happy that I met you. And even knowing that you’re alive, I feel like my life will be a lot better. Just being able to remember – being with you, and having such a nice experience together.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“It can be exploitative to give money; also to take it. Money overall a very exploitative substance, creating it seems fresh kinds of exploitation in every form of relationality through which it passes. Greasing with exploitation the wheels of human interaction generally.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
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