Grove Press

As it turns out, it was love.

When we were in each other’s arms, I knew something that was beyond words. It was the mystery of being close to someone who is not family.

: Will it happen again?

Growth and the overcoming of obstacles are inscribed on a person’s soul.

The abuse of your kindness enraged me.

You would not look at me. You kept very still.

I wanted to storm you like a city, surround you, besiege you, until you opened the gates to admit your conqueror.

‘It's one of those defining moments. I mean, when you just throw away everything, because it's incompatible with the one thing you really want.’

‘I disgust myself,’ you wrote in your diary. ‘It's perverted. It's unnatural. Anyone would agree that it's wrong. But, so help me God, I can't overcome it.’

if you worship something ardently enough, it might as well be divine.