And there you were, he said. In your cotton-underweared splendor.
Δεν τον είχα φιλήσει αλλά ήξερα ότι θα γινόταν κι αυτό, και το ήξερε ότι το ήξερα, και υπήρχε κάτι σαν αμοιβαία χαρά σε τούτη την ολίσθηση προς το αναπόδραστο, κι ας μην ήξερα το όνομά του ή αν ο,τιδή...
The thing about songwriting, John Dogg was saying to someone, is that you can address things obliquely, but no matter. You can’t get away from the content that is the essence of the form. All songs ar...
Lovers offered only what they offered and nothing more, and what they offered came with provisos.
Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson.
Haberlerin özelliği bunların hiçbir zaman sizin başınıza gelmemesidir.
People only tend to allow their own contradictions, and not those of others. It was okay to be murky to yourself, to know you weren't an angel, but other people had to be more cleanly divided into goo...
Who knew why they waited, I thought, understanding that I, too, had it in me to wait. To expect change to come from outside, to concentrate on the task of meeting it, waiting to meet it, rather than g...
What occurred did so because I was open to it, and not because fate and I met at a certain angle. I had plenty of time to think about this later. I thought about it so much that the events of that eve...
What happens between bodies during an insurrection is more interesting than the insurrection itself.
They toasted Gordon’s departure. To my rustication, Gordon said. Isn’t that when they boot you from Oxford? They just send you down to the country for a while.
She was going to drink after her shift was finished. That kind of drinking where you make a wilderness and tear a path in. You meet someone else there, deep in the woods. Go home together. Claw your w...
Seks is geen ruilhandel, het is een schenkeconomie.
I don’t know if it’s revolutionary not to work, she had told me, but it’s better. When you sell your body you are what you do. You’re yourself and you get paid for it, or so she had thought at the tim...
But at the same time, Sandro understood that people only tended to allow their own contradictions, and not those of others. It was okay to be murky to yourself, to know you weren’t an angel, but other...
Because I didn't move here to fall in love. The desire for love is universal but that has never meant it's worthy of respect. it's not admirable to want love it just is.
All the talk of regret. They make you form your life around one thing, the thing you did, and you have to grow yourself from what cannot be undone: they want you to make something from nothing. They m...
Change was such an elusive thing. A man could say every day that he wanted to change his life, was going to change it, and every day the lament became merely a part of the life he was already living,...
Was one of those. If you follow their rules, they make more rules. You have to fight people or you end up with nothing.
Before she was lost to the Tenderloin, north of Fascination, up in the boisterous and dirty hotels that formed the pearls on the chain of her bare life, barer even than mine.