Book: The Biographer's Tale
Quotes of Book: The Biographer's Tale
We rode back from Richmond decorously side by side on the top of a bus. It was as though my left side {her side} burned and was so to speak dissolving into steam, or gases. Other people may often have experienced this secret journeying with the intention of sex at the end, but I was new to it, as I was new to what Fulla had done to my skin and bone-marrow, my fingers and toes, not to mention the most obvious part, or parts of me. I could have stroked her, or gripped her, or licked her, all that long way back, but putting it off, waiting, keeping still, looking uninterested, was so much more exciting… book-quote