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Sleepless
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She should respond, she thought, but she didn’t know what to say. The words were there, but they were busy dancing in her brain, enjoying themselves –
“Time passed like the Sahara seeping through an hourglass.”
― Until Our Blood is Dry
― Until Our Blood is Dry
“I keep quiet and she keeps quiet too, until we use up all the quiet in the room so that finally one of us has to say something.”
― The Man I Think I Know
― The Man I Think I Know
“one half of his face drooping lower than the other, as if it had melted like a Dalí watch.”
― The Summer That Never Was
― The Summer That Never Was
“Martha kisses me on the cheek too, only she does not wipe away her lipstick afterwards. When she is not looking, I touch where she put her lips. It feels sticky but in a nice way. Like she has left part of her kiss behind for me to find later tonight, when I am in bed and dropping off to sleep.”
― The Man I Think I Know
― The Man I Think I Know
“Even thinking about working makes me feel queasy. This I know makes me sound a lot like I have no ambition. It presents me as almost having given up on life. It suggests that I’m content to just exist like some corpulent bluebottle basking in the sunshine on the windowsill of life.”
― The Man I Think I Know
― The Man I Think I Know
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