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Swimming in the Dark QUOTES

Swimming in the Dark QUOTES

1 " Little sparks cause fires too. "

― Tomasz Jedrowski , Swimming in the Dark

2 " Selfish. Growing into yourself is nothing but that. "

― Tomasz Jedrowski , Swimming in the Dark

3 " I allowed the union between the earth and my body, I let go, and for the first time in my life I appreciated everything for what it was, observed the miracle of it. The earth for being the earth, my hands for being my hands, the plants for growing out of seeds, and the others around me, everyone, with their own rights and dreams and interior worlds. "

― Tomasz Jedrowski , Swimming in the Dark

4 " The odds had been stacked against us from the start: we had no manual, no one to show us the way. Not one example of a happy couple made up of boys. How were we supposed to know what to do? Did we even believe that we deserved to get away with happiness? "

― Tomasz Jedrowski , Swimming in the Dark

5 " Some people, some events, make you lose your head. They're like guillotines, cutting your life in two, the dead and the alive, the before and after. "

― Tomasz Jedrowski , Swimming in the Dark

6 " I tried not to think of all the things I had imagined we would do together — return to our lake next summer, move in together someday. "

― Tomasz Jedrowski , Swimming in the Dark

7 " No matter what happens in the world, however brutal or dystopian a thing, not all is lost if there are people out there risking themselves to document it. Little sparks cause fires, too. "

― Tomasz Jedrowski , Swimming in the Dark

8 " This is how I lived back then– through books. I locked myself into their stories, dreamt of their characters at night, pretended to be them. They were my armour against the hard edges of reality. I carried them with me wherever I went, like a talisman in my pocket, thinking of them as almost more real than the people around me, who spoke and lived in denial, destined, I thought, to never do anything worth recounting. "

― Tomasz Jedrowski , Swimming in the Dark

9 " And yet, it occurs to me now that we can never run with our lies indefinitely. Sooner or later we are forced to confront their darkness. We can choose then when, not the if. And the longer we wait, the more painful and uncertain it will be. "

― Tomasz Jedrowski , Swimming in the Dark

10 " I avoided you, so that you couldn’t avoid me. "

― Tomasz Jedrowski , Swimming in the Dark

11 " Because you were right when you said that people can’t always give us what we want from them; that you can’t ask them to love you the way you want. No one can be blamed for that. "

― Tomasz Jedrowski , Swimming in the Dark

12 " I begin to think that not everyone suffers in the same way; that not everyone, in fact, suffers. Not from the same things, at any rate. And in a way this is what made us possible, you and me. "

― Tomasz Jedrowski , Swimming in the Dark

13 " I guess it’s nice to be away from the crowd sometimes, to be able to hear yourself think. I go mad when I’m surrounded by others all the time. "

― Tomasz Jedrowski , Swimming in the Dark

14 " There were moments when I wanted to lie on the ground and feel the street’s concrete against my face. Just lie down, stop. To feel a heavy weight on me, feel my bones crack, feel myself drift off to sleep, for ever. "

― Tomasz Jedrowski , Swimming in the Dark

15 " Because you were right when you said that people can’t always give us what we want from them; that you can’t ask them to love you the way you want. No one can be blamed for that. And the odds had been stacked against us from the start: we had no manual, no one to show us the way. Not one example of a happy couple made up of boys. How were we supposed to know what to do? Did we even believe that we deserved to get away with happiness? "

― Tomasz Jedrowski , Swimming in the Dark

16 " We’re just queuing for a possibility, queuing for something, maybe queuing for nothing,’ she said, smiling her sad and loving smile. ‘But it will pass, my dear. Even the longest queue dissolves eventually. "

― Tomasz Jedrowski , Swimming in the Dark

17 " Sooner or later we are forced to confront their darkness. We can choose the when, not the if. And the longer we wait, the more painful and uncertain it will be. "

― Tomasz Jedrowski , Swimming in the Dark

18 " One day your country is yours, and the next it isn’t. "

― Tomasz Jedrowski , Swimming in the Dark

19 " We kissed. You were mine. I realised then that this was the only thing that counted. Nothing else had ever existed. Just our lips and hips and sighs. I fell into different galaxies through you, your mouth a porthole to a better universe. "

― Tomasz Jedrowski , Swimming in the Dark

20 " I had always liked the act of leaving, the expanse between departure and arrival when you’re seemingly nowhere, defined by another kind of time. "

― Tomasz Jedrowski , Swimming in the Dark