April 23, 2021 2:09 pm
You do sometimes remind me of the kind of man who is tempted to put himself in prison in order
You do sometimes remind me of the kind of man who is tempted to put himself in prison in order
‘As long as you stay here, you can always think: One day I will go home.’ […] ‘You mean, I
It would help if I were able to feel guilty. But the end of innocence is also the end of
Giovanni liked to believe that he was hard-headed and that I was not and that he was teaching me the
‘Men – not just babies like you, but old men, too – they always nee a woman to tell them
She seems, like most of the women down here, to have gone into mourning directly the last child moved out
But I knew I could not open the door, I knew it was too late; soon it was too late
I ached abruptly, intolerably, with a longing to go home; […] But home, home across the ocean, to things and
He looked at me and I saw in his face again something which I have fleetingly seen there during these
‘Somebody’, said Jacques, ‘your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love.