One of the joys of being in love is that it clarifies your priorities. Complication arises from not knowing what you want.
Philip SingtonWe drank our coffee the Russian way. That is to say we had vodka before it and vodka afterwards.
Philip SingtonDesire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever the duration, it almost always leaves a scar.
Philip SingtonAnd then they would watch her closely as the dark, coagulated masses took form before her eyes, became flesh and bone, became gradually human. For all their show of reluctance, she had a sense that they enjoyed introducing her to these horrors, as seducers took pleasure in the corruption of innocence.
Philip Sington