“She felt like someone who drowns remembering what it was like to still be on the boat, so calm and at ease, so carelessly safe”
“She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.”
“She did not know why the heat felt so heavy in that house, why all of a sudden it felt so much less like warmth than she remembered.”
“She told me once that the year she went to England she painted her buttons yellow so she would remember what the sun felt like.”
“She was so beautiful, like someone who you will never meet, but always dream of meeting, like someone who is too good for you.”
“You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.”