“Wife, to him, was someone who stood for stability, forcoming home, for dealing with all the shit he wasnt able to deal with. For providing a real life and not this insanity.”

“I dont want to talk. Dans neck muscles tensed resisting Vadims hand.He didnt know the words and he didnt want to search for them. I just want to feel. But no, that wasnt it. I want to feel human.”

“The spiritual life to me has always meant just one thing: feeling.”

“since feeling is firstwho pays any attentionto the syntax of thingswill never wholly kiss you;wholly to be a foolwhile Spring is in the worldmy blood approves,and kisses are a far better fatethan w...”

“Shes kept her love for him as alive as the summer they first met. In order to do this, shes turned life away. Sometimes she subsists for days on water and air. Being the only known complex life-for...”