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“I start to count. This is the important part. I have to count right. Not too fast, nor too slow. All the way to one hundred. It must be spoken aloud, without interruption. Whispering is acceptable;...”
“I tried to count all the seconds that I have loved you for, but I gave up. I found it was easier to count the number of the stars in the universe.”
“The Goth boy stares at me, and I give him a what-are-you-looking-at stare right back. Im dead, he says in a dull monotone. Pardon me? Adriana asks, but he keeps staring at me. Youre dead, too. Look...”
“Who can count the sand by the sea?”
“Allow the light to fall across you. Shadow or sunlight. Allow it to define your shape. In its way. Another day it may be different. It surely will be. Are we ever the same? Is the light? And the wa...”
“He couldnt count them all. Nobody taught him how to count past ten. Such losses were beyond his comprehension.”
“An hour is indeed a long time when you count every second”
“If somebody count on you will he suicide?”
“He slept under the sky, holding her hand, filling the gaps between her fingers and losing himself inside the soul in the course of counting the stars, she was hiding inside her eyes.”
“We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.”
“Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.”
“Every moment counts.”
“To err is human. To count other people's errors is humane”
“He couldn’t count them all. Nobody taught him how to count past ten. Such losses were beyond his comprehension.”