“say that i starved, that i was lost and wearythat i was burned and blinded by the desert sunfootsore, thirsty, sick with strange diseases,lonely and wet and cold, but that i kept my dream!”
“I eyed her like a thirsty traveler in the desert looks at a pail of water.”
“And a secret inward voice in my head was saying (in a strange breathy voice...) Yes, yessss, I will pop round to The Blind Pig. I will 'pop' round because guess who lives at the Blind Pig? It is not a blind pig, it is Alex.”
“People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.”
“She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.”
“Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends.”