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Quotes from The Pure Weight of the Heart — Antonella Gambotto-Burke

born 1965 Australia

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From the standpoint of the present, the future is always a derangement of ambitions.

The Pure Weight of the Heart (1998)

The conversion of mass to energy and light is the prerogative of every star.

The Pure Weight of the Heart (1998)

It can be said that deeply traumatized children grow into adults who live in the minefield of their own extreme emotions. Plus ca change.

The Pure Weight of the Heart (1998)

The wrecked Allcock, who 15 minutes earlier had finished sodomizing Bock in the library, raised his eyebrows as if wonderfully surprised.

The Pure Weight of the Heart (1998)

Grief is a sphere in that it can be turned a quarter turn or turned a millionth, it can be spun on any axis and by any degree and still its aspect is the same.

The Pure Weight of the Heart (1998)

I think my parents were bewildered by my oddity.

The Pure Weight of the Heart (1998)

The fragile teacups, the brittle relics, the frail upholstery and shattery glass: this was a world of little things and little ways, their delicacy presupposing their protection.

The Pure Weight of the Heart (1998)

Had he pushed my thighs apart right then and there, his sunned skin dark against the tallow pallor of my own nocturnal flesh, and plunged two of his thick fingers thick within me, I would have felt it apt, so natural.

The Pure Weight of the Heart (1998)

In the second or so it had taken that bullet to leave its muzzle and penetrate my father's heart, between the pressure of that finger on the trigger and my father's soundless roar, somewhere in that infernal compression of decision, action, and consequence, I was forever altered.

The Pure Weight of the Heart (1998)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Antonella Gambotto-Burke (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.