Quotes By Person: James Meek

“She was lucky to be there, because he was the only man in the world. The others were clay models with bad joints, and needleholes for eyes, and hearts of meat. He was the only one who was alive. She had seen a man slaughtered and left for dead on the ground that day. The others were dead too, even the standing up and moving. Only this one was living. He bowed to her and spoke words and mounted his horse and rode away, taking with him something greater than all her joys before, and every atom in the world had cowled again when he had gone. She had a little of him in her camera. She ran inside to show it to herself.”

-The People's Act of Love, James Meek

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“The hussar looked at Anna, and her face burned and then went cold, because she understood that before that time she had never pleased anyone in the way that she pleased the young horseman, and yet she'd not spoken, and she didn't know what it meant, to delight a man only by the way she appeared, to be looked at as if time was running backwards and he'd come face to face with his dearest memory before she was a memory, knowing her completely in an instant and unknowing her in a life.”

-The People's Act of Love, James Meek

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