A review by kajaglede
Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

pain. agony even.

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We kissed. You were mine. I realised then that this was the only thing that counted. Nothing else had ever existed. Just our lips and hips and sighs. I fell into different galaxies through you, your mouth a porthole to a better universe.

No matter what happens in the world, however brutal or dystopian a thing, not all is lost if there are people out there risking themselves to document it. Little sparks cause fires, too.

I avoided you, so that you couldnโ€™t avoid me.

Because you were right when you said that people canโ€™t always give us what we want from them; that you canโ€™t ask them to love you the way you want. No one can be blamed for that.

The odds had been stacked against us from the start: we had no manual, no one to show us the way. Not one example of a happy couple made up of boys. How were we supposed to know what to do? Did we even believe that we deserved to get away with happiness?

Some people, some events, make you lose your head. They're like guillotines, cutting your life in two, the dead and the alive, the before and after.
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