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“We had bought a kilo of cherries and we were eating them as we walked along. We were both insufferably childish and high-spirited that afternoon and the spectacle we presented, two grown men jostling each other on the wide sidewalk and aiming the cherry pits, as though they were spitballs, into each other's faces, must have been outrageous. And I realized that such childishness was fantastic at my age and the happiness out of which it sprang yet more so; for that moment I really loved Giovanni, who had never seemed more beautiful than he was that afternoon.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“You gave me the flow of time, with morning, afternoon, and night, and the gift of miraculous shoes to walk around the real world. For me you were a magician. Without you, I would probably have lived my life without ever being aware that a period of time called morning even existed.”
― Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

“He wanted to blame the books, the sci-fi, but he couldn’t—he loved them too much.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“For me, love was nothing but a dialogue of little riddles, with no answers given. As for my spirit of admiration, I never even imagined it be a thing that required some sort of answer.”
― Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask