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21 " As if you could terminate love abruptly because the one you loved signed papers with someone else in a church. "
― Ali Shaw , The Girl With Glass Feet
22 " He’d been an odd one, that boy with the camera. Such a distinctive physique: pale skin so taut on his skeleton, holding himself with a shy hunch, not ugly as such but certainly not handsome, with a demeanor eager to cause no trouble, to attract no attention. "
23 " She sometimes wished she possessed the flawed kind of taste that drew girls to arseholes who wanted that one thing alone. "
24 " The woods felt like a sleeping monster worth tiptoeing past. "
25 " Besides, he didn't have enough intact heartstrings to hand them to people to pull. "
26 " Wenn du in's Fettnäpfchen getreten bist und jemand dir freundlicherweise die Hand hinstreckt, um dich da rauszuholen, dann solltest du die Hilfe vielleicht annehmen, anstatt dich auch noch darin zu wälzen. "
27 " Her toes were pure glass. Smooth, clear, shining glass. Glinting crescents of light edged each toenail and each crease between the joints of each digit. Seen through her toes, the silver spots on the bed sheet diffused into metallic vapours. "
28 " Die Begegnung mit ihm war wie eine Kollision gewesen und sie hatte gewusst, dass sie ihr lebenlang genau danach gesucht hatte: mit solcher Wucht mit einem anderen Menschen zusammenzuprallen, dass sie für einen Moment mit ihm verschmolz.Und diesen Moment hatte sie nicht, wie erwartet, in einer leidenschafltichen Liebesnacht gefunden, sondern an diesem Morgen, als sie zur gleichen Zeit die Augen aufgeschlagen und den Blick des anderen gesucht hatten. Sie waren wie Neugeborene gewesen, die gemeinsam mit großen Augen ihren ersten Atemzug von der Welt kosteten. "
29 " Mesmo tão jovem, Midas havia começado a pensar nos negativos como armadilhas de luz: a luz queima um negativo como uma reminiscência física do passado. Lembranças feitas de luz. Uma ampliação era uma cópia maravilhosa, mas o negativo é que poderia ser guardado como um tesouro. Sem eles, tinha-se apenas um simulacro; com eles, podia-se ter um fragmento do passado de sua mãe, como uma peça verdadeira de cabelo recuperado ou de unha. "
30 " Este era seu plano: nadar mais e mais longe a cada dia, até que pudesse mergulhar sozinho em segurança. Até que pudesse mergulhar em oceanos mais nublados. Em cantos mais pálidos, mais imóveis do mundo. "
31 " Beeches stood aghast in pools of shed leaves. Silver poplars looked like moonbeams. "
32 " Was she horrid to you? I hate her if she was horrid. "
33 " It was the touch that made him realize he loved her. Warmth from her scalp. Grease from her locks. He entwined his hand in her hair. It shrank through his moving fingers like sand. They lay together for a long time. Somewhere outside, a dog barked. He could barely believe he had lived so long without wanting to touch. Photography had made him forget the necessity of this feeling. "
34 " Her toes were pure glass. Smooth, clear, shining glass. Glinting crescents of light edged each toenail and each crease between the joints of each digit. Seen through her toes, the silver spots on the bed sheet diffused into metallic vapors. The ball of her foot was glass too, but murkier, losing its transparency in a gradient until, near her ankle, it reached skin: matte and flesh toned like any other. "
35 " I should take a photo.”“No. Just remember it, and us in it.”He swallowed.She smiled. Here was rightness of place and time. "