To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.
Ann-Marie MacDonaldAs for sin. I honestly can't believe God is so bored or so lecherous as to care how close my body and its various parts get to someone else's various parts.
Ann-Marie MacDonaldHe would have enough money...for a family that would fill his house with beautiful music and the silence of good books.
Ann-Marie MacDonaldYou think you're safe. Until you see a picture like that. And then you know you'll always be a slave to the present because the present is more powerful than the past, no matter how long ago the present happened.
Ann-Marie MacDonaldShe rejoins the crowd and watches with her friends, but she feels like an emptied glass - that crestfallen feeling of walking out from a movie theatre in the middle of the day, out from the intimate matinée darkness and the smell of popcorn, which is the smell of heightened colour and sound and story, into the borderless bright of day. Bereft.
Ann-Marie MacDonaldIt's his last thrill and his last sting of love, as fresh and painful as youth transplanted over time and an ocean. There is nothing left for him now except to die, but that will take a while because he is a creature of habit, and he has got into the habit of being alive.
Ann-Marie MacDonaldHaving experienced her own disappearance, she is conscious of how important it is for people to be seen, so when she looks at them --even the blind one--she also looks for them, just in case they too have got lost and need finding.
Ann-Marie MacDonaldFor once, Frances is stripped of irony. She is in the presence of something bigger--namely Herself. Or at least the self implied by her new body. This is how the Blessed Virgin visits us. She inhabits our own flesh and makes love out of it. Nothing is ironic in the moment of first love. And Frances is in love. With her body, and what it is bringing forth.
Ann-Marie MacDonaldMy first advantage: I have everything. My second advantage: this is just another island. My third advantage: I am bigger than it all.
Ann-Marie MacDonaldTag: determination advantage
Do you think there's such a thing as a ghost who masquerades as a person? Do you believe that there are people whose bodies are still alive here on earth but whose souls are already in hell?
Ann-Marie MacDonaldTag: hell
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