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“That was it. The bracket of her bent leg against the stones. The way her mouth angled around the cigar in a grimace that was almost a smile. The sight of a woman in a well-tailored jacket and trousers. Unexpected, unimagined. A prickling sensation. A stomach-dropping, blood-fizzing, breath-stopping, knotted lurch-and-swoop that I recognized, by then, as the first faltering step towards falling in love.”
― Briefly, A Delicious Life
― Briefly, A Delicious Life
“The women that survived me! They stepped out of their houses into the daylight and if I'd had any breath I would have been breathless at the sight of them. The hands of women. The ankles of women. The voices of women as they called to each other across the square.”
― Briefly, A Delicious Life
― Briefly, A Delicious Life
“There have been a few moments like that on my journey - times when I've wondered if God is telling me to get off this road and embrace a different life. But then I remember that I don't believe in God and that if he does exist, then he gave me this life to begin with. What would he know?”
― How to Kill Your Family
― How to Kill Your Family
“She was reflected in Mom, in Valentin, in little Valentin Junior, in another hundred people: she was reflected - surprisingly sharp - in Kostya. She was Ivan Konev's nightmarish dream. She was reflected in the fate of a distance stranger - her father, who lived on the other side of town.”
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“And she is aware too how very convenient it is to have found someone she wants to marry just at the moment in her life when getting married is expected of her. It is a relief not to have to marry someone for the sake of it, or to have to make a stand and marry nobody at all.”
― Briefly, A Delicious Life
― Briefly, A Delicious Life
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