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„With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk.“
„It was heavy, and I staggered when I lifted it; but it was strangely satifying to have a real burden upon my shoulders – a kind of counterweight to my terrible heaviness of heart.“
„life is crap but, every day is an experience“
„But, here was a curious thing. The more I tried to give up thinking of her, the more I said to myself, ‘She’s nothing to you’, the harder I tried to pluck the idea of her out of my heart, the more she stayed there.“
„I knew that I couldn’t lie beside her, without wanting to touch her. I couldn’t have felt her breath come upon my mouth, without wanting to kiss her. And I couldn’t have kissed her, without wanting to save her.“
„We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself in literature; and have inflamed your organs of fancy.“
„I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing but the truth, and being thought to be deluded.“
„It’s a curious, wanting thing.“
„She supposed that houses, after all – like the lives that were lived in them – were mostly made of space. It was the spaces, in fact, which counted, rather than the bricks.“
„.. this feeling haunts and inhabits me, like a sickness. it covers me, like skin.“
„I barely knew I had skin before I met you.“
„Being in love, you know… it’s not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can’t just go out and get another to replace her.“
„Why is it we can never love the people we ought to?“
„The best thing to do was to brazen it out, throw your head back, walk with a swagger…“
„And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.“
„Some things are so frightful that a bit of madness is the only sane response. You know that, don’t you?“
„Even ashes are a part of your freedom.“
„Why do gentlemen’s voices carry so clearly, when women’s are so easily stifled?“
„What does it say?” I said, when I had. She said, “It is filled with all the words for how I want you… Look.“
„Your twisting is done–you have the last thread of my heart. I wonder: when the thread grows slack, will you feel it?“