T. Atkins > T.'s Quotes

“[he was] spurting blood like squeezing a cheap catsup bottle”
― Mary Mulligan, Cadre Kids: Illusion

“...and the gentle surf foamed on the beach in a chorus of murmurs, as if the sea were sharing secrets with the shore.”
― Dean Koontz

“How precisely did one calculate the value of a soul? What complicated additions and subtractions did one have to do to work out which life was worth more than another?”
― E. M. Duffield-Fuller, Felgrim

“Remember, love without honesty does not deserve to be called love.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“I'm like you,' he said. 'I remember everything.'

I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when you’re just ready to shut the door of the taxi and have already said goodbye to everyone else and there’s not a thing left to say in this life, then, just this once, turn to me, even in jest, or as an afterthought, which would have meant everything to me when we were together, and, as you did back then, look me in the face, hold my gaze, and call me by your name”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Body and soul, let's all go / transformed into arrows! / Piercing the air / body and soul, let's go / with no turning back.”
― Ko Un