60 quotes found
Novelist · Welsh · 1966
Welsh novelist (born 1966)
“But the more I think it, the more I want her, the more my desire rises and swells.”
“It was heavy, and I staggered when I lifted it; but it was strangely satifying to have a real burden upon my shoulders a kind of counterweight to my terrible heaviness of heart.”
“She shook her head, and closed her eyes. I felt her weariness then, and with it, my own. I felt it dark and heavy upon me, darker and heavier than any drug they ever gave me - it seemed heavy as de...”
“But it's the simple and the good that are meant to suffer in this worldain't it, though!”
“I'm sorry you aren't as brave as you thought you were. But don't punish me because of it.”
“I had a very clear vision, of Selina with her hair about her shoulders, a crimson hat upon her head, a velvet coat, ice-skates - I must have been remembering some picture. I imagined myself beside ...”
“We fitted together like the two halves of an oyster-shell. I was Narcissus, embracing the pond in which I was about to drown. However much we had to hide our love, however guarded we had to be abou...”
“In short, Nance, even was you going to the very devil himself, your mother and I would rather see you fly from us in joy, than stay with us in sorrow - and grow, maybe, to hate us, for keeping you ...”
“I had loved Kitty -I would always love Kitty. But I had lived with her a kind of queer half-life, hiding from my own true self. Since then I had refused to love at all, had become - or so I thought...”
“It's a curious, wanting thing.”
“Undressing myself had no fun in it, now I had undressed her.”
“But my thoughts were more like poisons. I had so many, they made me sick.”
“Her friend - and her partner on the stage. You will not believe me, but making love to Kitty - a thing done in passion, but always, too, in shadow and silence, and with an ear half-cocked for the s...”
“The vase was placed upon my desk, and there were orange-blossoms in itorange-blossoms, in an English winter!”
“I shivered again, remembering. I put the tip of one finger to my tongue. It tasted sharplike vinegar, like blood.Like money.”
“She was about to be married, and was frightened to death. And no-one would love her, ever again.”
“And for a moment I though I would tell her, that it would be the easiest and the slightest thing imaginable- that after all, if anyone would understand it, she would. That I need only say, 'I am in...”
“Tricky was a plain-faced man with a very handsome voice - a voice like the sound of a clarinet, at once liquid and penetrating, and lovely to listen to.”
“One time, two years ago, I took a draught of morphia, meaning to end my life. My mother found me before the life was ended, the doctor drew the poison from my stomach with a syringe, and when I wok...”
“Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?”
