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“...Again she did not seem to hear, still looking into Cales eyes. Then slowly, hopelessly, she dropped her gaze. I understand, she said. It was that, of course, that pierced him as if she had stabb...”
“To lose the approbation of my dog is a thing too horrible to contemplate.”
“You know someone is special to you when you're literally captivated by them in even the little moments. The slightest thing they say or do, is like watching the universe unfold. And nothing else ma...”
“You wonder why he loves her, she's so unlike any other, but any man can love an ordinary woman. Theyre everywhere and whereas hes had other women love him before, they were women who loved a lot, a...”
“Once I saw Graham - wholly unconscious of her proximity - push her with his restless foot. She receded an inch or two. A minute after one little hand stole out from beneath her face, to which it ha...”
“Narcissists are consumed with maintaining a shallow false self to others. They're emotionally crippled souls that are addicted to attention. Because of this they use a multitude of games, in order ...”
“But inside is my Emmy. She remembers all our adventures together. She knows that for a short time, we had it all.”
“You were like reading a good novel. The kind were you wanted to turn every page, & never put it down... And absorb every second. But for whatever reason, that novel isn't there for me to read, & so...”
“She could have rambled with all the fervor of a woman who had loved one entity for longer than most races live, and with the inviolable, unquestioned certainty found in dementia. There were referen...”
“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”
“Looking at him now-even if she hadn't been in love with him, that part of her that was her mother's daugher, that loved every beautiful thing for its beauty alone, would still have wanted him.”
“So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your ...”
“You are the most important thing to me now. The most important thing to me ever.”
“How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach knotted up every time he saw her shake loose her hair from its braid? How could he d...”
“Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impio...”
“I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand.”
“You’ll probably fall in & out of love at least a dozen times…the wrong way…to love THAT ONE…the right way…YOU!”
“...is worship too strong a word? yes, I worship you - to worship is to give worth to something – isn’t that what love is all about?...”
“...how are you sacred to me? your lines are golden threads - your patter, my patten - I explore the liturgy of your words...”
“...I've discovered why you fascinate - you keep the mystery and as Carlyle noted, Wonder is the basis of worship...”
