“I'm swimming in your cadences that you permeate my very language.”
― The Lover's Dictionary
― The Lover's Dictionary
“We live in time - it holds us and molds us - but I never felt I understood it very well. And I'm not referring to theories about how it bends and doubles back, or may exist elsewhere in parallel versions. No, I mean ordinary, everyday time, which clocks and watches assure us passes regularly: tick-tock, click-clock. Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time's malleability. Some emotions speed it up, others slow it down; occasionally, it seems to go missing - until the eventual point when it really does go missing, never to return.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
“Things rarely get fixed the way they need to be.”
― The Lover's Dictionary
― The Lover's Dictionary
“I would always wait to take you home.”
― The Lover's Dictionary
― The Lover's Dictionary
“stanchion, n.
I don't want to be the strong one, but I don't want to be the weak one either. Why does it feel like it's always one or the other? When we embrace, one of us is always holding the other a little tighter.”
― The Lover's Dictionary
I don't want to be the strong one, but I don't want to be the weak one either. Why does it feel like it's always one or the other? When we embrace, one of us is always holding the other a little tighter.”
― The Lover's Dictionary
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