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“Oh, to be back there, and be young again.”
― The Water Dancer
― The Water Dancer
“My father used to say that we had another life in the sky. Our world had a reflection, like a mirror. And each of us had a double living in the world in the sky. The people there slept during the day and woke up at night. They felt cold in the heat and got hot in the cold. They couldn’t see when it was light but could make out the furthest object in the dark. The men in this world were women there, while the women were men. They didn’t take life seriously, but attached great importance to dreams. They liked hugging strangers. They weren’t ashamed of being poor, but of being rich. For them laughing was crying, while crying was laughing. When someone died they sang songs and danced. When I was a child I often stared at the sky to try and catch a glimpse of my other self. I wondered what I was like in that other life.”
― Istanbul Istanbul
― Istanbul Istanbul
“WHY SHOULD SHE want to be married?” “It’s not as though she could be in love. She’s forty.”
― The Pursuit of Love
― The Pursuit of Love
“Broke the ice with, “Don’t you think it curious that men shake hands with the same hand they use to wipe their arses?”
― Young Philby
― Young Philby
“I had a mother who left when I was a child. I didn’t miss her. Maeve was there, with her red coat and her black hair, standing at the bottom of the stairs, the white marble floor with the little black squares, the snow coming down in glittering sheets in the windows behind her, the windows as wide as a movie screen, the ship in the waves of the grandfather clock rocking the minutes away.”
― The Dutch House
― The Dutch House
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