Adrian Buck’s Reviews > My Dark Vanessa > Status Update

"Did you know he married one his students?"...."It happens sometimes"

"It's easy to imagine [Plough] sinking to his knees, lowering his head into my lap, not to lament how he will inevitably ruin me but instead to mourn that another man has." - age specific attraction reduced to a concern for virginity, has Plough already ruined his own attraction to his wife?

"I learn things about myself: that if I limit myself to five hours of sleep, I'm too tired to care what happens around me; if I wait until dinnertime to eat, hunger pains drown out any other feelings. - In Krasnodar, I learnt half a bottle of gin could have the same effect, I learnt to treasure my hangovers.

"I drape my arm across my eyes, fall into swirls of color, ocean waves rising to mountains, the sensation of being so small until I come, harder than when I do it to myself, so hard I see stars" - unsettlingly violent?