Yeniden karanlık çökmeye başladı, öyle bir karanlık ki artık neredeyse son umudunu da ezip yok edebilecek gibi.
" Bir hiç olmak - eninde sonunda dünya üzerindeki en hoşnutluk verici varoluş durumu değil midir?"*
*Virginia Woolf, Flush, Çeviren: Fatih Özgüven, Iletişim Yayınları, 2020,s.99
Sayfa 78
Although we don’t usually notice it when we’re in the flush of rage, anger is actually a defense against deeper feelings of fear, hurt, disappointment, or other pain.
Sayfa 120Kitabı okudu
“You have a lovely voice.”
I feel an unexpected flush of warmth at his words.
I tilt my head in confusion. “But I thought you wanted me to stop talking,” I say.
“About me. Talk your ass off about anything else.”
“I’m sitting here with a man who says he’s not actually a man, riding a horse that might not actually be a horse—”
“He’s a horse.”
“—and I’m supposed to not talk about any of it.”
“Precisely.”
There’s a long pause.
“Fine. I guess that leaves me to talk about sex. Moist, thick, wet sex.”
Another beat of silence passes, then—
“Would you like another compliment?”
"A punishment everyone shares, for neither of them will give up an inch, not a flush nor a flinch nor above all a tear."
Sayfa 61
Fever 103°
Does not my heart astound you. And my light.
All by myself I am a huge camellia
Glowing and coming and going, flush on flush.
