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“People drown on dry land. They are not easy to help. They are not saints. And neither, it turns out, is anyone else.”
― Inventory: A Memoir
― Inventory: A Memoir
“Not much is truly holy in this world, but precious is the person who does not pass on the pain and the desire for retribution, that self-sustaining spiral; who says, “No more,” not out of resignation or defeat, but out of something that might be called love, if it even needs a name.
It became clear to me now what my father had given me. He had broken the cycle.”
― Inventory: A Memoir
It became clear to me now what my father had given me. He had broken the cycle.”
― Inventory: A Memoir
“Eva was rather impressed that we had made all the necessary arrangements. I did not tell her that I would shortly be leaving my job, because already she had said that penniless people had no right to have children. She didn’t seem to think it was Charles’s baby — only mine, because later on, when I was upstairs putting on my coat, she kissed me quite kindly, but spoilt it by saying, ‘I shall never forgive you, Sophia, for making my son a father at twenty-one.’ I almost added, ‘And you a grandmother at forty-six.”
― Our Spoons Came from Woolworths
― Our Spoons Came from Woolworths
“It was only then, when the man lay sleeping beside her, that Evelyn took in the whole new astonishment of her situation. She shifted very slightly away from him in her bed so that no part of her body was touching his, aware of the smell of his skin of his naked back so close beside her, so masculine and alien, an affront in a new language she couldn't read.”
― The Party
― The Party
“The mantra these days is “talk about your feelings.” It sounds like good advice and perhaps it is. It is said, though, by those who can already speak freely. For others, there are consequences to talking, to admitting to colleagues, friends, family—many of whom are struggling too—that you are struggling. There are difficulties in even finding the words, and then in facing the distinct possibility of someone mumbling something awkward or dismissive in response, breaking eye contact. Words have a weight. Sometimes they are lead.”
― Inventory: A Memoir
― Inventory: A Memoir
Genet to Cooper - Dark Literature 1920 to Today
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Devoted to reading and discussing a range of dark and perverse literature from the early 20th century to today. Some writers that interest me are Gene ...more
Transgressive Fiction
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