Andrew

“In the dark theater Lee could feel his body pull toward Allerton, an amoeboid protoplasmic projection, straining with a blind worm hunger to enter the other’s body, to breathe with his lungs, see with his eyes, learn the feel of his viscera and genitals. Allerton shifted in his seat. Lee felt a sharp twinge, a strain or dislocation of the spirit.”
― William S. Burroughs, Queer

“The experts are right, he thought, Venice is sinking. The whole city is slowly dying. One day the tourists will travel here by boat to peer down into the waters, and they will see pillars and columns and marble far, far beneath them, slime and mud uncovering for brief moments a lost underworld of stone.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Don't Look Now and Other Stories

“Out of a love that was more like a thirst for revenge, Yackichi erected a ridiculously expensive monument to his ancestors at the family temple.”
― Yukio Mishima, Thirst for Love

“Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.”
― Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life