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“If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence.”
― Greek Lessons
― Greek Lessons
“Pronto llegará el día en que no podré distinguir mi reflejo en el espejo de todo lo demás. Todos los rostros que recuerdo se quedarán congelados en mi memoria.”
― Greek Lessons
― Greek Lessons
“To her, there was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze. It was close to being the only way of touching without touch.
Language, by comparison, is an infinitely more physical way to touch. It moves lungs and throat and tongue and lips, it vibrates the air as it wings its way to the listener. The tongue grows dry, saliva spatters, the lips crack. When she found that physical process too much to bear, she became paradoxically more verbose.”
― Greek Lessons
Language, by comparison, is an infinitely more physical way to touch. It moves lungs and throat and tongue and lips, it vibrates the air as it wings its way to the listener. The tongue grows dry, saliva spatters, the lips crack. When she found that physical process too much to bear, she became paradoxically more verbose.”
― Greek Lessons
“It's a very dangerous idea to like someone on the whole just because you like a part of her.”
― No One Writes Back
― No One Writes Back
“childhood falls silently to the bottom of my memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life.”
― Childhood
― Childhood
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