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A review by ella_holden_
Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
5.0
- p. 137 'He lay there, upside down and a world away...It was James that changed it. The pinkie that had lain next to his own crossed over and locked over his. The electrical current that had burned at the border jumped on to his skin and he was scorched...it was good to put your weight on someone else, even if it was just for a short while.'
- p. 228 'it was what they didn't say next that made Mungo nervous...they sat like that, just grinning until their faces hurt'. 'A fissure Mungo hadn't known about cracked open in his chest; beneath it was a hollow feeling that had never bothered him before. It was an agony not to raise his own hand and touch the hairs James's fingers had licked. It burned. He wanted nothing more than to feel the warmth left by his touch. he closed his eyes and said, 'I feel sick.'...James leaned across the distance and placed a kiss on his lips...It was like hot buttered toast when you were starving. It was that good.'
- p. 236 'it was a nothing that felt like an everything.'
- p. 228 'it was what they didn't say next that made Mungo nervous...they sat like that, just grinning until their faces hurt'. 'A fissure Mungo hadn't known about cracked open in his chest; beneath it was a hollow feeling that had never bothered him before. It was an agony not to raise his own hand and touch the hairs James's fingers had licked. It burned. He wanted nothing more than to feel the warmth left by his touch. he closed his eyes and said, 'I feel sick.'...James leaned across the distance and placed a kiss on his lips...It was like hot buttered toast when you were starving. It was that good.'
- p. 236 'it was a nothing that felt like an everything.'