“Find me now. Before someone else does.” – Haruki Murakami, IQ84.
reading
“What did you get on your SAT?” The Southern Gentleman asked me the other day.
I sighed, “let’s please not get into this. It’s so silly. It was like three years ago.”
After some badgering, he finally got it out of me.
“Fine,” he conceded, “you have the higher score. But I still control the sex.”
We’d struck a balance of sorts.
“We sat in the car
& the night dropped
down until the
only sounds were
the crickets &
the dance of our voices
& for a moment
the world became
small enough to
roll back & forth
between us.”
– Brian Andreas, Hearing Voices.
“My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.” – Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic.
“Buy the ticket, take the ride." – Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
“I shall be as dirty as I please; and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!” – Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights.
“Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It’s James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it’s Marilyn heading off to bed.” – Michael Cunningham, By Nightfall.
“What is it you women want
you want to be strung up with hoods and gags and blindfolds
stretched out on a board with weights on your chest
you want me to sew your legs to the bed
and pour gasoline on you
and light you on fire
is that what I have to do to keep you?”
– Charles Mee, Big Love.
The Southern Gentleman: I don’t get why you hate Rick Perry.
Me: (whilst trying to do that mountain of schoolwork I mentioned) Okay.
SG: I mean, he’s an upstanding guy.
Me: Please don’t get me started.
SG: What could you possibly have a problem with?
Me: SG, I need to study. I am not going to have this conversation about your cowboy mancrush while I’m reading. You’re going to make me mad.
SG: (grinning) Angry sex mad?
“She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else.” – Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex.