

“In my end is my beginning.”
― Four Quartets
― Four Quartets

“It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise

“You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise

“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise

“Those last months. No way of wrapping it pretty or pretending otherwise: Rafa was dying. By then it was only me and Mami taking care of him and we didn't know what the fuck to do, what the fuck to say. So we just said nothing. My mom wasn't the effusive type anyway, had one of those event-horizon personalities-shit just fell into her and you never really knew how she felt about it. She just seemed to take it, never gave anything off, not light, not heat.”
― This Is How You Lose Her
― This Is How You Lose Her
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