The Lesser Bohemians Quotes

“Can I say what I want is to lie on his bed, in his crease on his sheets until my body forgets what it's done and where it's been?”
― Eimear McBride, The Lesser Bohemians

“Magnificent, somehow. To give in. Wreck yourself so completely. The beauty of it.”
― Eimear McBride, The Lesser Bohemians

“Just dandelion leaves trod all down his path with this going away and the coming back. Some great ending it feels like. For now though, just go through his broke door.”
― Eimear McBride, The Lesser Bohemians

“Life makes itself with little heed for the appropriate.”
― Eimear McBride, The Lesser Bohemians

“I'm not lost. Or not lost much. Lonely. It is that and I don't know what to do.”
― Eimear McBride, The Lesser Bohemians

“So take him down into me on the bed. Give and offer what shelter I have. At first we are only people in love, reducing all life to the measure between us. But others pass into. Lives break through, making him go elsewhere and I become.”
― Eimear McBride, The Lesser Bohemians

“Real life's not all about romance and I should remember that.”
― Eimear McBride, The Lesser Bohemians

“But whistling down from the blue night it comes: I had not grasped that the sun still rose after I love you.”
― Eimear McBride, The Lesser Bohemians

“I find the smallest part of my life and crawl in there”
― Eimear McBride, The Lesser Bohemians

“And the fall that was coming has come here now. We welcome it. Leap down into it. Cannot wait to see how far.”
― Eimear McBride, The Lesser Bohemians

“Being young you have not yet known the fool’s triumph nor yet nor yet love being lost as soon as won. No. That’s wrong. Only won here. Not lost at all. And dread? Won’t any more. For bound to him is what’s to bind and as for crying? For the wind.”
― Eimear McBride, The Lesser Bohemians