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"and i told him how proud of him i was, and how michael and alice were going to keep living together even if we weren't... we would be on the red carpet collecting statues on their behalf."

"all i knew was that i was glad he was there, but not enough to make me happy generally. happiness felt very far away, and like something only the innocent were entitled to."

"but there's a gut inside my body, and it metabolises the atmosphere quickly. everyone knew that something was wrong, and that the graduation felt lika a forced wedding between a child and a corpse."

“I could see it. I could see it in the same way I could see London, a parallel universe that was accessible with just one definite step from me.”

“when something good happens to you at that age, you can't settle with the notion that its a one-oft, You want it to be the beginning of a tradition. That's how I felt about that night: I wanted it already to be a memory, a foundational one, a first evening of many similar evenings. l wanted tuture nostalgia, a rear view; years-old condness for something that had literally just happened.”

“The year in Shandon Street did a lot for me, but it did this most of all. It detached me from any kind of inherited moral system. I stopped sizing others up in accordance with the values I had been taught: ……. learned the value of contest, and of people.”

“I wonder if having them in my head made the sex that bit more extraordi-nary. It was an orgy while still being extraordinarily intimate, and exclusively me and Carey.”

“I don't know who I was trying to impress. I did not want a boy-friend; I did want romance. I wanted passion; I did not want to be someone who was known as easy. I was desperate to be touched; I was terrified of being ruined.”

the conversations with friends lover in me thought this might go another way lmaoo

“i thought what i always do when i’m in a small room with a man im not related to, which is: are we gonna fuck?”
“i hope he doesn’t want to have sex i’m still on my period”

HAHHAHAHAJSJKS

“i was twenty and i needed two things: to be in love and to be taken seriously”