“I’d been sad in Dublin, decided it was Dublin’s fault, and thought Hong Kong would help.”
― Exciting Times
― Exciting Times
“Because even if I sometimes use the word abuse to describe certain things that were done to me, in someone else’s mouth the word turns ugly and absolute. It swallows up everything that happened.”
― My Dark Vanessa
― My Dark Vanessa
“The trouble with my body was that I had to carry it around with me.”
― Exciting Times
― Exciting Times
“Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for.”
― Little Women
― Little Women
“As I met her penetrating gaze, read the surprise and the sympathy there, I abruptly yearned for sleep. Not for oblivion, as I had before, not to escape boredom, but because I wanted to dream. Maybe if I could be unconscious, if I could dream, I could live for a few hours in a world where she and I could be together. She dreamed of me. I wanted to dream of her.”
― Midnight Sun
― Midnight Sun
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