Brad Barkley Quotes

• I want to show you something,” I say. What?” He dabs at his lips with the napkin, and for a moment I’m wishing so hard that I am that napkin that I can almost feel myself changing, becoming thin and papery and white. “Cal?” I sit back and feel myself blushing, feel it from the tips of my toes all the way to the heat at the backs of my ears.

  Brad Barkley

  White, Wish, Dabs

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• Le pongo el dedo en los labios. "Tienes que callarte un momento para que pueda decirte algo". "¿Qué?", dice ella, mordiéndome el dedo. La miro. "Te quiero". Se queda callada, el tipo de silencio que se hunde en ella, la ablanda. "Bueno, eso funciona", dice por fin, con la voz más grave y sin aliento, los ojos húmedos, "porque yo también te quiero". Se gira, se apoya en mi brazo y se acomoda en mí.

  Brad Barkley

  Love You, Eye, Voice

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• Cal," I whisper into her sleep, "if you go, you know what? You'll break my liver." I want to pretend that it's a joke, that she will wake up and laugh with me, throwing her head back the way she did last night, bit this time the words are true . . . she will break my liver, break my heart, kill everything inside alive inside me.

  Brad Barkley

  Corazón, Sueño, Noche

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• But how he acts, and what he says, and what he does, and who he is, they don't line up anymore, and the lie is in that not lining up, the lie is in not being what she needs but pretending that he is. No one says a word, and she sees it every minute they have together.

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  Lying, Together, Doe

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• Any more questions?" I ask, poking him gently in the ribs. "Do you still love me any?" Eliot asks, putting his hand over mine. "A little." "A little?" he asks, pulling away from me. "A lot." "How much?" he asks. "More than chocolate chip cookies." "Mmm" he says, kissing my shoulder. "More than walking on the beach." Eliot kisses me on the neck. "More than . . ." I pause, turning to look at him. "More than?" he asks, kissing my lips. I turn toward him. "Anything.

  Brad Barkley

  Beach, Kissing, Hands

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• All of it seems like noise and false light, and all I want for tonight is quiet, the black and gray of a summer night, and a girl in a pink dress, beside me forever.

  Brad Barkley

  Girl, Summer, Night

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• You asked me if I believed in magic, and I said yes, and that's how. You just step out, start pulling your life out of the air. You make friends, you find work you really like doing, you find places. You find diners and Laundromats. You find beaches. You find a junk car and drive it for a month, then lave it beside the road. You find someone to fall in love with you. You make it all up as you go. Or, you know, maybe it makes you up.

  Brad Barkley

  Beach, Falling In Love, Love You

  Brad Barkley, Heather Hepler (2007). “Dream Factory”, p.66, Penguin

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