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― The Pigeon
― The Pigeon
“I mean, nobody tells you sex is going to be so _noisy_, do they? ...”
― The Crow Road
― The Crow Road
“She was so unsettled by love and the sense of her nakedness that her voice shrank in her throat. The periods of the song warbled through the room. Her whole body seemed ablaze . The drunken , singing head shook with some delirious impulse that seemed to be destroy ing her. What insanity! She was weeping, in her wild nakedness, as she approached my bed, which to me was a death bed. She fell on her knees, she fell down in front of me and hid her tears in the sheets.”
― Blue of Noon
― Blue of Noon
“Like colors or a spring tree against that kind of blue sky that pulls your heart out through your eyes. Pretty things will swarm you like that, like your heart was a hive of electric bees.”
― Geek Love
― Geek Love
“Au XVIIIe siècle vécut en France un homme qui compta parmi les personnages les plus géniaux et les plus abominables de cette époque qui pourtant ne manqua pas de génies abominables.”
― Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
― Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
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