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“You are the illness I will never cure. You are the poem I will never write. You are the thought I will never finish. You are the text I will never read.”
“Was it always to be like this? she wondered. A moment of joy followed by a new sorrow?”
“I loved everything to anything to everyone who surrounded him. He was perfect. A delusion with a sweet melancholy taste. He was crazy, but he was my crazy and inside, everything felt right.”
“I realized I loved him after everything went wrong so I wallowed in self-pity and prayed I could wake up.”
“We wander in our thousands over theface of the earth, the illustrious and the obscure, earning beyond theseas our fame, our money, or only a crust of bread; but it seems to methat for each of us go...”
“Well, then, what's the plan now? You can't stay here forever.'My plan was indeed to stay there forever.”
“Out on the lawn, Bunny had just knocked Henry's ball about seventy feet outside the court. There was a ragged burst of laughter; faint, but clear, it floated back across the evening air. That laugh...”
“The two of us are lIke sunshine and the rain. Together... We are the wellspring of all life. But between us, there will will bloom no flowers. We shall bear no fruit. For us, all of time... Shall b...”
“Just give me a bit, let me pretend you're still alive," Andrei said hoarsely. "Let me pretend that I don't have to give you up.""Andrei," Warm, calloused hands cupped Anrei's face. "Look at me. I'm...”
“And the pomegranates,/like memories, are bittersweet/as we huddle together,/remembering just how good/life used to be”
“I must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to you, King of the Numenoreans, not till now have I understood the tale of your people and their fal...”
“She clasped his hands and pressed her lips to them. 'I want you to be proud of me,' he repeated. She dropped his hands, feeling defeated.”
“Her eyes flashed, hot and angry, like lightening cutting through a red sunset.”
“Saving you was worth losing what we might've had.”
“Had I only known my lettersWould be of such importanceId empty myself on paperEvery single morningAnd it was for such reason,as she read his little stanza,that she decided to stamponefinalletter:Ev...”
“Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.”
“Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poi...”
“You cannot drink the nectar of love without bleeding for its thorns.”
“It was hard to understand a little and then walk away.”
“You expect certain things to always be there, like the bakery on the corner, or the boy you grew up with. But when the very ground can eat you alive without warning, what's to say the ocean won't d...”
