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“Louis thought he would be all for a back-to-the-basics drive in education: a teacher, an olive tree, a bit of midday wine (the Greeks had watered theirs down to keep their heads lucid), and, last b...”
“If Ive learned one thing, its that the unfortunate thing about life is that everythings mixed. Theres no absolute good and theres no absolute evil. Theres just a lot of confusion.”
“People always knew more than you gave them credit for. Perhaps, in the end, no one had any secrets at all.”
“And now none of it could be undone. That was the exquisite irony: the act that had undone everything could not itself be undone.”
“When he got a story urge, there was nothing to do but grab a pen and write. Otherwise it was too much like getting a hard-on and not jerking off.”
“There was no denying it. Boys grabbed him. Their loveliness tore him apart. The world was a wonder after all.”
“Was it a form of madness, no longer to be able to trust your sense of things? To be betrayed by decisions apparently arrived at carefully and through reason, but really no more than marauding appet...”
“Despite his care, Reid was still playing with fire, the kind that could without warning sheathe ones whole life in irreversible conflagration.”
“Love loves anarchy. It loves to wreak havoc. It loves to dance atop the ruins.”
“Do you even know what gay stands for? Well, let me tell you. G-A-Y. Got Aids yet?”
“Still, the illusion of love had, in its time, led to stranger depravities.”
“If certain places you came to in life felt right, then how many others were just as clearly the wrong place to be?”
“Shirtless, theyd stretch out in the long grass and take the healing brunt of a noontime sun that gave no clue of the thunderheads it already, in secret, had begun to breed.”
“Tracy had never been so conscious of the sky above the earth, the dangerous clouds that gathered there, the way humans lived beneath such grandeur and threat every moment of their lives.”
“He wanted to toast mad idealism, forbidden desires, the dreams that drove one to criminal acts. He wanted, quite starkly, oblivion.”
“Absolutely, love matters, she reiterated. We forget that at our own risk.”
“The angel descended when you were least expecting it. Tracy felt something quietly go click in his despairing heart.”
“Our students didnt used to come from such damaged families, Louis mused. Its true what they say. This country really is coming apart at the seams.”
“Why not simply surrender to ones doom, since one was so clearly, so spectacularly, doomed?”
“Soon would come the night in which there was no more work – not the work of the hands, nor the work of the mind, nor the work of the heart.”
