You were never a real Avery, he hissed. You know that, don’t you?I do, I said.But Christ on a bike, you came close. You came damned close.
You fought in the Great War? a journalist from The Guardian asked me in a long interview to coincide with the presentation of the prize. I didn’t think it was all that great. I pointed out. In fact, i...
The notion that he had a life outside our life, outside our friendship, was deeply hurtful to me.
It was a difficult time to be Irish, a difficult time to be twenty-one years of age and a difficult time to be a man who was attracted to other men. To be all three simultaneously required a level of...
I married up several times. And then across once or twice. And then beneath me. I never quite found the right level somehow. Perhaps I should have married diagonally or in a slightly curved direction.
Hay veces en que le envidio su juventud, pero trato de no pensar mucho en eso. Un anciano no debe tener celos de aquellos que vienen a ocupar su puesto, y recordar el tiempo en que era joven, sano y v...
Every girl likes a man in uniform, said Ernst. Every girl, perhaps, remarked Beatrix. But not every uniform. You know why people wear uniforms, don’t you, Pierrot? continued the chauffeur. The boy sho...
Collars, trench coats or jackboots – uniforms allow us to exercise our cruelty without ever feeling guilt.
Leaving me an orphan like those characters I had spoken of the night before, if one can truly be called an orphan at twenty-one years of age.
Floor,
You have many years ahead of you to come to terms with your complicity in these matters. Just don’t ever tell yourself that you didn’t know. She released him now from her grip. That would be the worst...
Why do they hate us so much anyway?’ I asked after a lengthy pause. ‘If they’re not queer themselves, then what does it matter to them if someone else is?’ ‘I remember a friend of mine once telling me...
The novel was written by Anshel Bronstein, the boy who had lived in the flat below him as a child. Of course, he remembered, he had wanted to be a writer. It seemed that his ambition had come true.
Tengo la sensación de que sólo me limito a respirar. Y existe una diferencia entre respirar y seguir viviendo.
Se me ocurre que, incluso aunque Zoya y yo aún seguimos vivos, mi vida ha concluido ya. No tardaré en perderla y no habrá razón para que continúe sin ella. Verán, es que somos una sola persona. Somos...
One day he was perfectly content, playing at home, having three best friends for life, sliding down banisters, trying to stand on his tiptoes to see right across Berlin, and now he was stuck here in t...
My six uncles, their dark hair glistening with rose-scented lacquer, sat next to her in ascending order of age and stupidity. >>In her absence they would say that she had always been a floozy and this...
My mother was Evelin’s Hartford, said Maude, as if this would mean something to one or the other of us. So you know, she simply adored chairs.
In school, the other girls formed alliances which always excluded me. They called me names; I will not repeat them here. They made fun of my unshapely body, my pale skin, my untamed hair. I do not kno...
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