“I guess it can’t be too often that two people can laugh and make love, too, make love because they are laughing, laugh because they’re making love. The love and the laughter come from the same place: but not many people go there”
― If Beale Street Could Talk
― If Beale Street Could Talk
“It's a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.”
― If Beale Street Could Talk
― If Beale Street Could Talk
“What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“It feels impossible how much space there can be in this intimacy, how much privacy. And I think that maybe that is what love is. Not the absence of space but the acknowledgement of it, the thing that lives between the parts, the things that makes it possible not to be one, but to be different, to be two.”
― In Five Years
― In Five Years
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