“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
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“Why were children the only ones who ever got to melt down?”
― Territory of Light
― Territory of Light
“If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
“During the night, there had been a sound of water on the other side of the wall. In my sleep I was looking out from the fourth-floor bedroom at nearby buildings bathed in rain, gleaming with neon and streetlamp colours.”
― Territory of Light
― Territory of Light
“sharing is not simply about morality, but also about pleasure. Solitary pleasures will always exist, but for most human beings, the most pleasurable activities almost always involve sharing something: music, food, liquor, drugs, gossip, drama, beds. There is a certain communism of the senses at the root of most things we consider fun.”
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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