Philip

“Thank god nobody asks what the problem is, content to let him lose whatever the fuck he's lost.”
― Margaret McDonald, Glasgow Boys: Ediz. italiana

“Look, I appreciate you constantly cheerleading me, buddy, but can you quit doing yourself down? You might've not realised it but you're kinda my hero. So, stop demoting yourself to sidekick status, okay?”
― N M J Coveney

“A name in the right mouth was as good a weapon as any gun.”
― Djamel White, All Them Dogs

“his shyness is a kind of fear, or the memory of fear; that his silence is a difficulty in speaking; that his gentleness is a fragility; his solitude a form of exclusion...”
― Philippe Besson, The Summer Boy