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“I just wanted to write to tell you that I have been happy during these months together, that I have never been so happy, and that I already know I will never be so happy again.”
― Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

tags: despair, happiness, love, memories

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“He had underestimated me. All along. Even though I had not underestimated him. But, how do you love someone without blinding yourself? Don’t we all have to indulge each other, let our guard down, and -ever so slightly- lower ourselves, in order to love someone?”
― Hiromi Kawakami, The Ten Loves of Mr. Nishino

tags: love, underestimate

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“If I couldn’t move toward him, then I’d throw words out like little life rafts, hoping one would reach him and keep us both from sinking.”
― Alyssa Songsiridej, Little Rabbit

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“It grows because you tend it.' This was a phrase often repeated by my great-aunt when she was alive. 'That's how love is,' she used to say. 'If the love is true, then treat it the same way you would a plant - feed it, protect it from the elements - you must do absolutely everything you can. But if it isn't true, then it's best to just let it wither on the vine.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, Strange Weather in Tokyo

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“I imagined the choreographer’s love as a fall into the frozen river, losing myself in the dark water like a soft annihilation. What would happen when I needed to surface and found the hole frozen back over. What he did, I wanted, true. And I feared what I wanted, the urge to jump over, dive deep. What he’d done was crack something new inside of me and let it break the world.”
― Alyssa Songsiridej, Little Rabbit

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