Zohra’s voice comes loudly from her camel: “Shut the fuck up! Enjoy the fucking sunset on your fucking camels! Jesus!”
raniahas quoted14 hours ago
How can so many things become a bore by middle age—philosophy, radicalism, and other fast foods—but heartbreak keeps its sting? Perhaps because he finds fresh sources for it.
raniahas quoted14 hours ago
By his forties, all he has managed to grow is a gentle sense of himself, akin to the transparent carapace of a soft-shelled crab.
Aaby Sanzhas quoted2 years ago
I feel like I just understood how to be young.”
“Yes! It’s like the last day in a foreign country. You finally figure out where to get coffee, and drinks, and a good steak. And then you have to leave. And you won’t ever be back.”
Aaby Sanzhas quoted2 years ago
phrase he does not want to say and yet, somehow, by the cruel checkmate logic of conversation, is compelled to say:
“Thank you.”
Aaby Sanzhas quoted2 years ago
Like someone who has just learned a foreign language and can use only the present tense and only the second person. Only now, only you.
Aaby Sanzhas quoted2 years ago
Strange, though; because he is afraid of everything, nothing is harder than anything else
Nina Vyvcharukhas quoted5 years ago
Where did the genius come from? Where did it go? Like allowing another lover into the house to live with you, someone you’d never met but whom you knew he loved more than you.
Nina Vyvcharukhas quoted5 years ago
Some kid who couldn’t even name the Beatles? A diversion; a pastime; a hobby.
Asiyat Bostanovahas quoted5 years ago
What god has enough free time to arrange this very special humiliation, to fly a minor novelist across the world so that he can feel, in some seventh sense, the minusculitude of his own worth?