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“I have found myself leaning heavily on this pain. At first I tried to silence it, thinking it would go and leave me to my agitated content. That it would linger for a season, a firm reminder of the disquiet that lurks and coils below the surface of the stubbornly self-gratifying vision of our lives. Far from going, it became more clear, more precisely located, concrete, an object that occupied space within me, cockroachy, dark and intimate, emitting thick, stinking fumes that reeked of loneliness and terror. When I woke up in the morning, I groped for it, then sighed with plunging recognition as I felt it stirring inside me, alive and well.”
― Admiring Silence
― Admiring Silence
“We were strolling along the waterfront, his favourite walk, going nowhere in particular, the postcolonial condition.”
― Admiring Silence
― Admiring Silence
“I'm not perfect. I'm unfulfilled.”
― Admiring Silence
― Admiring Silence
“... the world always moves on despite the chaos and waste in its midst.”
― Afterlives
― Afterlives
“In no time at all after I moved, I was overcome by the enormity of my abandonment, like someone weeping in a crowd.
I was astonished by the sudden surge of loneliness and terror I felt when I realized how stranded I was in this hostile place, that I did not know how to speak to people and win them over to me,that the bank, the canteen, the supermarket, the dark streets seemed so intimidating, and that I could not return from where I came – that, as I then thought, I had lost everything. Then Emma came and filled my life. I can’t describe that.”
― Admiring Silence
I was astonished by the sudden surge of loneliness and terror I felt when I realized how stranded I was in this hostile place, that I did not know how to speak to people and win them over to me,that the bank, the canteen, the supermarket, the dark streets seemed so intimidating, and that I could not return from where I came – that, as I then thought, I had lost everything. Then Emma came and filled my life. I can’t describe that.”
― Admiring Silence
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