Open, Heaven Quotes

“Perhaps I was so steeped in love, had woven its mythologies through my mind for so long, that when it arrived in reality I could not recognise it. Love confused me, bewildered me, tore me apart, but not because it was not love, but because I thought it was a fake, some unreal version that did not accord with the love I had dreamt alone.”
― Seán Hewitt, Open, Heaven

“It was a paradox, really – I was afraid of men, but I only felt really safe if one of them was on my side.”
― Seán Hewitt, Open, Heaven

“It was like walking through a folk song that afternoon — the blackbirds and the thrushes, the sweetness of the flowers, the boy I loved, and who might even love me, waiting for me between the trees.”
― Seán Hewitt, Open, Heaven

“I had come to find love, its vision, its company, to be changed by it... knowing that it would deplete me as much as it sustained, that it would torture me as much as it made life... worth living.”
― Seán Hewitt, Open, Heaven

“Perhaps I was so steeped in love, woven its mythologies through my mind for so long, that when it arrived in reality I could not recognize it.”
― Seán Hewitt, Open, Heaven

“[I] felt abject in my hiddenness, my shadow-life, and because I had spent so long just watching, never acting, I was terrified of exposing my desire. I thought it would be shocking, that it would tear right through the fabric of the world and everyone would see it and know me and everyone would know that I was not a harmless thing, an undesiring thing, but that I had a fire insurgent within me, a buried fire that had been stoked furiously for so long that it would rage through the world if for a moment I let it out.”
― Seán Hewitt, Open, Heaven