“…what we saw, day and night, was nothing but night…roaring, deafening darkness…”
– Thomas Bernhard, Amras
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— samuel beckett
“We have already drunk to next year. Now let’s drink to this year. It’s been wonderful.”
– H. E. Bates, A Month by the Lake
“And it was to you that I gave my beauty and my passion, you know. That’s something that can never be forgotten.”
– Ivan Bunin, from “Shadowed Paths,” Shadowed Paths: Stories (University Press of the Pacific, 2001)
“They really love each other. I like to see that.”
– Rick Bass, from “Mexico,” The Watch: Stories (W. W. Norton, 1989)
“…he says my name and I say his and it is dark and now we are alone in the world we are polished stones we are orbs and scepters…”
– Robert Olen Butler, from “Piers Gaveston (male consort to King Edward II, beheaded by posse of English nobles, 1312),” Severance: Stories (Chronicle Books, 2008)
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