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“Maybe that’s what children were, a desperate need that opened you up even if you didn’t want it.”

“… Today you
learnt the shape of the microplastics
swirling and snowglobing in your skull -
the toll your body has been charged
for living under capital is the weight
of a spoon.”

“The stone steps that had once led bathers right down to the water, and Fisher People to the fish, were entirely exposed and led from nowhere to nowhere, like an absurd corbelled monument that commemorated nothing.”

“My life had been small and dark for so long, and now Nim had prised her way inside and detonated it. All around me were smithereens. I looked up, and found scraps of sky.”

This is exceedingly tedious to read! Do I abandon?

“Gelon heads straight for Homer’s chair … It’s stuck in the corner, a bronze inscription above that reads, ‘Homer’s chair’. Is it Homer’s chair? Well, there are many Homer’s chairs scattered across Syracuse, and can they all be Homer’s chair? Why not? The arse is capricious and does not wed for life, and so perhaps, yeah, it is Homer’s chair.”

“He had never got in the habit of introspection, and he found the task of searching his motives a difficult and slightly distasteful one; he felt he had little to offer to himself and that there was little within him which he could find.”

Annnnd I think I'm done with this. Somebody recommend a light romantic chick-lit read, stat.

... what did I just read!?