“Being close to someone meant more than being next to them after all, it meant more than simply having spent a lot of time with them. Being close to someone meant the entire rhythm of that person's life was synchronized… — Anuk Arudpragasam Copy Share Image
“Didn’t dying in the end mean being separated from other humans, after all, from the sea of human gaits, gestures, noises, and gazes in which for so many years one had floated, didn’t it mean abandoning the possibility of connecting with another human that being among others always afforded? Unless, on the other hand, dying meant being separated from oneself… — Anuk Arudpragasam Copy Share
“Being close to someone meant more than being next to them after all, it meant more than simply having spent a lot of time… — Anuk Arudpragasam Copy Share Image
“What it would be like to be separated from all these things he did not know, but the more he dwelled on it the… — Anuk Arudpragasam Copy Share Image
“What it would be like to be separated from all these things he did not know, he could not envision, but the more he… — Anuk Arudpragasam Copy Share Image