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James Baldwin

“If I could make you stay, I would,’ he shouted. ‘If I had to beat you, chain you, starve you—if I could make you stay, I would.’ He turned back into the room; the wind blew his hair. He shook his finger at me, grotesquely playful. ‘One day, perhaps, you will wish I had.”

James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
tags: depression, love
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Giovanni’s Room Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
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