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“Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.
These, our bodies, possessed by light.
Tell me we'll never get used to it.”
― Crush
These, our bodies, possessed by light.
Tell me we'll never get used to it.”
― Crush
“I don't promise to forget the mystery, but I know I'll have a marvelous time.”
― Nancy's Mysterious Letter
― Nancy's Mysterious Letter
“You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you’ve done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you’re tired. You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and you’re trying not to tell him that you love him, and you’re trying to choke down the feeling, and you’re trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you’ve discovered something you didn’t even have a name for.”
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“I loved my friend
He went away from me
There's nothing more to say
The poem ends,
Soft as it began-
I loved my friend.”
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He went away from me
There's nothing more to say
The poem ends,
Soft as it began-
I loved my friend.”
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“Do act mysterious. It always keeps them coming back for more.”
― Nancy's Mysterious Letter
― Nancy's Mysterious Letter
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