Marissa
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“A lot like yesterday, a lot like never.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.”
― Tomcat in Love
― Tomcat in Love
“he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered. He wanted her to be a virgin and not a virgin all at once. He wanted to know her. Intimate secrets: Why poetry? Why so sad? Why that grayness in her eyes? Why so alone? Not lonely, just alone - riding her bike across campus or sitting off by herself in the cafeteria - even dancing, she danced alone - and it was the aloneness that filled him with love. He remembered telling her that one evening. How she nodded and looked away. And how, later, when he kissed her, she received the kiss without returning it, her eyes wide open, not afraid, not a virgin’s eyes, just flat and uninvolved.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“I love you," someone says, and instantly we begin to wonder - "Well, how much?" - and when the answer comes - "With my whole heart" - we then wonder about the wholeness of a fickle heart.) Our lovers, our husbands, our wives, our fathers, our gods - they are all beyond us.”
― In the Lake of the Woods
― In the Lake of the Woods
“But in a story I can steal her soul.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
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