Frederick?Had she really spoken? Certainly she'd tried, but her voice had failed to materialize and all she heard was the sound of her nightgown ripping as Frederick pulled it over her head and threw...
Go, he said; in peace. And sing with the whales.
Mi always thought of him as living in a body one size smaller than his being - part of him always rushing forward beyond the rest of him, leaving part of him behind. [...] Skin-tight, expressionless -...
He said that in a way being loved is like being told you never have to die.
Houses, trees and fields of flax once flourished here. Summers had been blue with flowers. Now it was a shallow sea of stinking grey from end to end. And this is where you fought the war.
I can't work in a house where there's saints. The minute there's saints, the devil sends messengers
I doubt we will ever be forgiven. All I hope is – they'll remember we were human beings
I have dreamt of a life you will never know; the life of a loving and caring companion. I simply thought you should know. I see that you are in trouble. I watch and listen to you. I want to help, but...
I still maintain that an ordinary human being has the right to be horrified by a mangled body seen on an afternoon walk.
I tell you Charlie, I was there waiting in that field. waiting for Ede and Tom to find me. You don't think two people come together for nothing, do you? They were together because I was waiting to be...
I've never met—have you?—a truly sophisticated man. World-weary and discreet—of course. But never sophisticated.
In the dark that followed - Lucy said; where I was born, the trees were always in the sun. And I left that place because it was intolerant of rain. Now, we are here in a place where there are no trees...
La nuit tombe, le jour se lève. Toujours.
Master Stuart made his letters into paper darts and launched them page by page from the roof of the house-watching them descend and fade into the green ravine below...Some he saved to trade at school...
... too much brooding, not enough doing.
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