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I was going for the devious smile that would suddenly light up his face each time he'd read my mind, when all I really wanted was skin, just skin.

Whoever said the soul and the body met in the pineal gland was a fool. It's the asshole, stupid.

Jewish?"
"Moslem?" I replied.
"Just like a Jew: always answers with a question."
"Just like a Moslem: always answers the wrong question.

He was obviously proud of his Berber skin. This is the colour of wheat and gold.

You'll kill me if you stop.

We are driven by something as simple and as obvious as the desire to be happy, and, if that fails, by the belief that we once have been.

With tears came solace and surrender, pardon and courage.

What he was after hangs between the visible and the invisible, between the here and now and the seemingly elsewhere.

Think of the pain before the pain.

Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second.
But then perhaps this is what lovers are.

We are not written for one instrument alone; I am not, neither are you.

I believe with every cell in my body that every cell in yours must not, must never, die, and if it does have to die, let it die inside my body.

Twenty years was yesterday, and yesterday was just earlier this morning, and morning seemed light-years away.

I have three things: my cab, my zeb, and my dignity. Without one, the other two are worthless.

All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.

I think everyone is wounded in their sex," I said. "I can't think of one person who isn't.

People who read are hiders. They hide who they are. People who hide don't always like who they are.

Because I didn't want to forget was the heart and soul of poetry.

How historians explain time is one thing, but how we live time is quite another.

Is it better to speak or die?

At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief - or do they hound you till the bitter end?

It was not flirting, just verbal ping-pong. I was dying to slam the ball but too polite to stop the back-and-forth.

In my world, a man who darns his own socks is not a man.

I liked forgetting my cares. Thanks to wine, you didn't forget them, they just stopped scaring you for a while.

If I could have him like this in my dreams every night of my life, I'd stake my entire life on dreams and be done with the rest.

The man who'll lay the last stone here isn't even born yet.

We loved with every organ but the heart.

There is no love without desire, diffidence, defeat.

If he knew, if he only knew that I was giving him every chance to put two and two together and come up with a number bigger than infinity.

What did I tell you?" Kalaj turned to me without even looking at the owner. "Everyone shuts their door in the end.

He, of all people, understood all about these hidden mainsprings in the twisted gadgetry of the soul.

If we can't say what we think under our roof, then we have no roof.