The problem with Liam was never something big. The problem with Liam was always a hundred small things. He had cigarettes but no matches, did I have matches?
Andrea EBJhas quoted2 years ago
You know everything at eight, but it is hidden from you, sealed up, in a way you have to cut yourself open to find.
Andrea EBJhas quoted2 years ago
a woman with no luggage, no sharp objects, and nothing I haven’t packed myself.
Andrea EBJhas quoted2 years ago
They are young again; back at that moment in life when someone else’s body is a path that might be taken, with no chance of return.
Andrea EBJhas quoted2 years ago
So I left him and he left me. What else are siblings supposed to do?
Andrea EBJhas quoted2 years ago
if he made a home, it was only ever to leave it.
Andrea EBJhas quoted2 years ago
realised, too, that I was not in love with him, but condemned instead to a lifetime of such false intensities, that I would have to love each man I slept with in order not to hate myself,
Andrea EBJhas quoted2 years ago
We do not always like the people we love–
Andrea EBJhas quoted2 years ago
It is the way he refused to own me, no matter how much I tried to be owned. It was the way he would not take me, he would only meet me, and that only ever halfway.
I think I am ready for that now. I think I am ready to be met.
Andrea EBJhas quoted3 years ago
I think you might call it a crime of the flesh, but the flesh is long fallen away and I am not sure what hurt may linger in the bones.