“I am not promiscuous with my warmth, but when I share it, my warmth can be as hot as the sun.”
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
“And so their memories took on potential, which is of course how our greatest nostalgias are born.”
― Exit West
― Exit West
“[W]hile our souls are meager, nature has surplus. Yet something of the mechanism's subject was indeed dissolved in that silver chloride, flattened then minted as those promiscuous postcards we saw now, which we could not now unsee, for we had accepted unawares a bit of the Canyon each time we saw a photograph of it, and those pieces, filtered and diluted, had accumulated in us, so that we never saw anything for the first time. Perhaps the ugliest of our impulses, to shove the sublime through a pinhole.”
― Gold Fame Citrus
― Gold Fame Citrus
“My Seryozha. My holy little fool. You've spent these last few years working so hard to become an asshole. Despite your best efforts, you're becoming a man instead. And I know you want to become so great an asshole that centuries from now people will speak of wiping their Sergeis. But you're not an asshole. You're my son. So when you want to disgrace yourself, remember, little one, that you are all of your father's pride.”
― The Tsar of Love and Techno
― The Tsar of Love and Techno
“Thank you for being open to another more workable draft of me. It affected me profoundly.”
― Dear Mr. You
― Dear Mr. You
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