Dec 5, 2024
A sensuous hunger swirled in my veins. I wanted to drink and eat and lie naked with someone, to burn or break something inside me.
— Hisham Matar, My Friends
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A sensuous hunger swirled in my veins. I wanted to drink and eat and lie naked with someone, to burn or break something inside me.
— Hisham Matar, My Friends
A man who refused to own slaves but was not opposed to others owning slaves was still a slaver, to my thinking.
— Percival Everett, James
I want to see what would happen if I walked up to her and put all of my face in her face and she can finally have what she wants which is she doesn't have to look anywhere where I'm not.
— Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep
Tired days when the flesh continues.
— Hisham Matar, My Friends
Wherever I go from here, I must carry with me everything I have seen.
— Hisham Matar, My Friends
She thought: I can hold you and find that I still miss your body. She thought: I can listen to you speak and still miss the sound of your voice.
— Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep
What can we do in our abandoned solitude but gaze at ourselves? Examine ourselves in endless bouts of fascinated distraction, fall in love and hate with ourselves, make a theatre, myth and cult of ourselves. Because what else is there?
— Samantha Harvey, Orbital
I did not know that joy could be so painful.
— Hisham Matar, My Friends