Jillian Dodd · 826 pages
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“You can’t fully love anyone until you learn to love yourself.”
“The way you love the man you marry is going to be different than the love you felt for an old boyfriend.”
“I did it because I think it’s time you finally knew that the stars were always for you. Always. Only. Ever. For you.”
“Electrical shivers shoot up my leg. And my knee is such a slut! She likes it! She’s that friend you have. The one who you tell you’re on a diet and the next day she shows up with cupcakes and says, Aww, just one won’t hurt. But when I look down at my knee, I realize that she’s not only a slut, she’s an enabler. She’s all, Look at your knee. How small it looks under his big hand. How safe it feels. God, I hate my knee.”
“I grind so fine, I’m practically coffee,” he says with a straight face, then busts out a grin.”
“Love is the poetry of the senses.” Some”
“Hey, Audrey, shut the fuck up. We’re trying to watch the game.”
“After a kiss like that, he should know I’m the one. He should be down on his knees begging me to marry him and have his little Hottie babies.”
“Sander is a great boyfriend. He’s super attentive, dresses well, loves to shop, and never even looks at other girls.”
“So, congratulations, you’re finally getting what you dreamed of." I take the key from around my neck, drop it into his hand, and say, “I understand perfectly.”
“flirt. Why the hell not? I’m single. You’re single. Let’s mingle. Just because I’m not going to fall in love doesn’t mean I can’t have some fun.”
“You can have all the brains in the world, but it takes a body to get most men’s attention.”
“Order my life. I’m nothing without you: fragments of time, fragments of words, fragments of feelings. Make sense of me. Make me whole.”
“What now?" Lydia asked. "I assume we have a plan B?"
He shook his head. "We're way past plan B," he told her. "And we've gone past plan C as well. We're up to plan D now."
"And what's plan D?"
He jerked his head down the alley to the corner. "Anyone comes round that corner, we shoot them."
She pursed her lips critically. "Doesn't sound too ingenious," she said.
He shrugged. "I'm not good at ingenious. I'm good at dangerous.”
“ان القلب الكريم يمكن أن يحب من قبيل الشفقة”
“Hunger is an object.
The angel has climbed into my brain.”
The angel doesn't think. He thinks straight.
He's never absent.
He knows my boundaries and he knows his direction.
He knows where I come from and he knows what he does to me.
He knew all this before he met me, and he knows my future.
He lingers in every capillary like quicksilver. First a sweetness in my throat. Then pressure on my stomach and chest. The fear is too much.
Everything has become lighter.
The hunger angel leans to one side as he walks with open eyes. He staggers around in small circles and balances on my breath-swing. He knows the homesickness in the brain and the blind alleys in the air.
The air angel leans to the other side as he walks with open hunger.
H whispers to himself and to me: where there is loading there can also be unloading. He is of the same flesh that he is deceiving. Will have deceived.
He knows about saved bread and cheek-bread and he sends out the white hare.
He says he's coming back but stays where he is.
When he comes, he comes with force.
It's utterly clear:
1 shovel load = 1 gram bread.
Hunger is an object.
“In my opinion half the people who spend their lives avoiding being run over by buses had much better be run over and put safely out of the way. They're no good.”
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