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“thats the problem with kissing. in theory, when someone's good at it, you should be able to keep kissing forever. but of course, forever is too long to do anything without getting bored.”
― Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

“it became a stranger’s face—or it made me
so guilty to look on him that I wished it were a stranger’s face. Not all
my memorizing had prepared me for the metamorphosis which my
memorizing had helped to bring about.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“You
want to leave Giovanni because he makes you stink. You want to despise
Giovanni because he is not afraid of the stink of love. You want to kill
him in the name of all your lying little moralities. And you—you are
immoral. You are, by far, the most immoral man I have met in all my
life. Look, look what you have done to me. Do you think you could have
done this if I did not love you? Is this what you should do to love?”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“Much has been written of love turning to hatred, of the heart growing
cold with the death of love. It is a remarkable process. It is far more
terrible than anything I have ever read about it, more terrible than
anything I will ever be able to say.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room