“He's still a man, a grown man too, and he thinks better of himself than to seek a coddling sympathy from the one who's hurt him. You can't be the rapist and the prince both, he thinks meanly, and pretty… — Alex Ankarr Copy Share Image
“He has given Caspar flowers, has given him soft toys (however ridiculous that might be as a gesture.) Has written real actual poems, with fountain pen ink on nice expensive paper. (Ridiculous also. But everyone deserves a few ridiculous romantic gestures in life, Caspar feels. Including him. Especially him. He hasn’t had an over-abundance of them up until this point.)… — Alex Ankarr Copy Share
“So Penn just reads, and he just reads for a good long time. By the time he has come to the point of the… — Alex Ankarr Copy Share Image
“He quite certainly shouldn't care: and still he feels a hot sick bubbling in his gut, as if he'd drunk turned milk, or been… — Alex Ankarr Copy Share Image
“Ree is his. Is his, is devoted to him, is aggravatingly tender and possessively passionate and wrapped up in him in a thousand ways,… — Alex Ankarr Copy Share Image
“He's still a man, a grown man too, and he thinks better of himself than to seek a coddling sympathy from the one who's… — Alex Ankarr Copy Share Image
