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No other book has taught me about ortolans and no other book will make this kind of comparison to them

“So I force myself to block my ears and go away, like someone escaping from the Sirens, to prevent myself sitting there beside him till I grow old.”

“Love is the desire to have the good forever.”

“Most remarkable of all, it is widely supposed that the only person forgiven by the gods for failing to keep an oath is the lover. A lover’s oath, 183a they say, is no oath at all.”

“When Homer speaks about a god “breathing might”into some of his heroes, this is just the effect that love has on lovers.”

“The last person a lover could bear to be seen by, when leaving his place in the battle-line or abandoning his weapons, is his boyfriend; instead, he’d prefer to die many times.“

“But when I hear other kinds of discussion, especially the talk of rich businessmen like you, I get bored and feel sorry for you and your friends, because you think you're doing something important, when you’re not. Perhaps you regard me as a failure, and I think you’re right. But I don’t think you’re a failure, I know you are.”

“Harrie Johnson was a slight hummingbird of a woman who conducted herself in everything with furious purpose.”

“only time I feel something stirring down there is when I think about Shug. And that like running to the end of the road and it turn back on itself.”

“For the first time in my life, I feel just right.”

“this the closest us ever felt.”