A Tennyson garden, heavy with scent, languid; the return of the word swoon.
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Zum Autor"In my dreams of this city I am always lost."
"These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency."
"Now I'm awake to the world. I was asleep before. That's how we let it happen. When they slaughtered Congress, we didn't wake up. When they blamed terrorists and suspended the constitution, we didn't wake up then, either. Nothing changes instantaneously. In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it."
"If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary."
"No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well."
"I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead."