“She puts her hands on either side of my face, and the room falls away. I have never gotten so lost in a kiss before.
And then, the space between us explodes. My heart keeps missing beats and my hands cannot bring her close enough to me. I taste her and realize I have been starving.
I have loved before, but it didn't feel like this.
I have kissed before, but it didn't burn me alive.
Maybe it lasts a minute, and maybe it's an hour. All I know is that kiss, and how soft her skin is when it brushes against mine, and that even if I did not know it until now, I have been waiting for this person forever.”
―
And then, the space between us explodes. My heart keeps missing beats and my hands cannot bring her close enough to me. I taste her and realize I have been starving.
I have loved before, but it didn't feel like this.
I have kissed before, but it didn't burn me alive.
Maybe it lasts a minute, and maybe it's an hour. All I know is that kiss, and how soft her skin is when it brushes against mine, and that even if I did not know it until now, I have been waiting for this person forever.”
―
“Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.”
― Primary Colors
― Primary Colors
“Yo ya era así antes de que tú llegaras, caminaba por las mismas calles y comía las mismas cosas. Incluso antes de que llegaras yo ya vivía enamorado de tí y a veces, no pocas, te extrañaba como si supiera que me hacías falta.”
―
―
“Hay plantas en su departamento. Plantas que crecen en el borde de la ventana, en su cuarto, en la mesada, en el baño, en potes de helado y tarritos de metal, en macetas rojas y amarillas de plástico, en cuidadas macetas de cerámica que Julia compró en una feria de artesanías. Hay geranios, potus, cactus, aromáticas y mutantes, de hojas dentadas, de las que no sabe el nombre. Hay un palo borracho alto y solitario y cubierto de espinas.”
― Para hechizar a un cazador
― Para hechizar a un cazador
“How much better life must have been for jealous drunks before emails and texts and mobile phones, before all this electronica and the traces it leaves.”
― The Girl on the Train
― The Girl on the Train
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