“Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.”
― Der blinde Mörder
― Der blinde Mörder
“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Love: Ten Poems
― Love: Ten Poems
“I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
― Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
― Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
“Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
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