“My heart felt like a cold ember. Last night it flamed with hope. Today it was coated with ashes.”
“I could almost believe that a love as passionate as theirs had been would enable them to reach across the abyss between life and death and join hands for some precious moments every night.”
“recalling vividly the love scene I had just witnessed. How much I had been cheated! How much of what should be every woman’s was not mine and”
“they had slept like babies. “Which proves how important it is for a man to return home,”
“El dia quedo teñido de negrura y, a partir de entonces, todos mis dias han sido negros”
“Queria desgarrar la Tierra, destruir el suelo hasta que no quedase nada”
“El Señor nos lo ha dado, el Señor nos lo ha quitado”
“Pero en alguien tan lleno de vida, amor y esperanza, la sombra de la muerte no se detiene por mucho tiempo, al contrario de lo que nos ocurre a quienes carecemos ya de esperanzas y sueños”
“The closeted homosexual is far less likely to demand fair or just treatment for his kind, because to do so would call attention to himself.”
“When we're in a human body, we don't care about universal collapse - instead, we care only about a meeting of the eyes, a glimpse of bare flesh, the caressing tones of a loved voice, joy, love, light, the orientation of a house plant, the shade of a paint stroke, the arrangement of hair.”
“I gave Paul a withering look but the truth was I was curious as hell. First of all, to find out what Sullivan wanted. And second, to see what a teacher's room looked like. I'd always sort of figured they came out during the day to teach classes and then got stored in shoe boxes under someone's bed until they were needed again. (James)”
“It was scary how a girl couldn't live without friends.”
“Beklager så meget , sa han. Jeg er ikke helt meg selv i kveld. Saken er nemlig den at jeg er død i dette øyeblikk.”
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