

“But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another.”
― Cat’s Eye
― Cat’s Eye

“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future. The ruin you've made.”
― Cat’s Eye
― Cat’s Eye

“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”
― A Streetcar Named Desire
― A Streetcar Named Desire

“Despite their cool poses they wear their cravings on the outside, like the suckers on a squid. They want it all.”
― Cat's Eye
― Cat's Eye

“When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters, the slope of a shoulder, the angle of a hip. Looking at them sideways, I examine them in different lights. My love for them is visual: that is the part of them I would like to possess. Don’t move, I think. Stay like that, let me have that.”
― Cat’s Eye
― Cat’s Eye

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