ೄ Amets ⚢

“He knew no more of love, he told himself, than he did of tears, but he enjoyed sitting there. And he enjoyed the conversation which seemed to him on the verge of taking an even more sprightly turn. In other words, he knew all there was to know about love, that it’s the delight of being in the presence of the loved one.”
― Thomas Savage, The Power of the Dog

“Quan vaig passar un dia a l'hospital amb ell, gairebé tota l'estona asseguda al seu costat, observant com li reaccionava el cos amb l'AZT, el medicament que li havia portat jo perquè m'havien dit que a Antigua no se'n trobava, li vaig dir que no en podia sortir res de bo d'estar tan malalt, tot i que li volia agrair que m'hagués fet adonar que l'estimava i ell em va preguntar si ho deia de debò («È vritat?»), li vaig respondre que sí, que ho deia de debò. I quan ja me n'anava, després d'haver-li dit bona nit i d'haver tancat la porta de l'habitació, la meva silueta va passar davant de les persianes de llibret de la finestra, i ell, del llit estant, estirat de panxa enlaire, em va veure i va cridar: «T'estimo». És una cosa que només em diuen el meu marit i els meus fills, i jo sempre els responc com li vaig respondre a ell: «Jo també t'estimo».”
― Jamaica Kincaid, My Brother

“The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.”
― Bertolt Brecht

“Then as he had kept watch Sam had noticed that at times a light seemed to be shining faintly within; but now the light was even clearer and stronger. Frodo's face was peaceful, the marks of fear and care had left it; but it looked old, old and beautiful, as if the chiseling of the shaping years was now revealed in many fine lines that had before been hidden, though the identity of the face was not changed. Not that Sam Gamgee put it that way to himself. He shook his head, as if finding words useless, and murmured: "I love him. He's like that, and sometimes it shines through, somehow. But I love him, whether or no.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers