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“She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks. Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery.”
― One Day
― One Day
“You have my whole heart. You always did.”
― The Road
― The Road
“Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you”
― One Day
― One Day
“What I do, and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.”
― Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems
― Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems
“A love story can never be about full possession. The happy marriage, the requited love, the desire that never dims--these are lucky eventualites but they aren't love stories. Love stories depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on matrimonial boredom and at least one cold heart. Love stories, nearly without exception, give love a bad name.
We value love not because it's stronger than death but because it's weaker. Say what you want about love: death will finish it. You will not go on loving in the grave, not in any physical way that will at all resemble love as we know it on earth. The perishable nature of love is what gives love its importance in our lives. If it were endless, if it were on tap, love wouldn't hit us the way it does.
And we certainly wouldn't write about it.”
― My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro
We value love not because it's stronger than death but because it's weaker. Say what you want about love: death will finish it. You will not go on loving in the grave, not in any physical way that will at all resemble love as we know it on earth. The perishable nature of love is what gives love its importance in our lives. If it were endless, if it were on tap, love wouldn't hit us the way it does.
And we certainly wouldn't write about it.”
― My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro
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