“I know,” he said. “I feel the same way. But it’s as if we knew each other before in some former life. We fit together so well in so many ways. We fill in all the gaps for each other. I look back on my life before I met you and it seems it
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“You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been.”
― The Lover
― The Lover
“How is it
that everything must
begin and end with you?
There you are,
before sunrise,
perfuming the world with your scent.
Have you made a deal
with the moon so that you can linger
even when she tapers off?
And what about the wind?
Even when he has been scolded
and is sitting in a corner, there you are,
my calm before the storm.
Despite the inevitable destruction
and my ruin, there you are again,
my calm after the storm.
I must,
I really must know:
'How is it
that there was never you
until there was
and then all was you?”
―
that everything must
begin and end with you?
There you are,
before sunrise,
perfuming the world with your scent.
Have you made a deal
with the moon so that you can linger
even when she tapers off?
And what about the wind?
Even when he has been scolded
and is sitting in a corner, there you are,
my calm before the storm.
Despite the inevitable destruction
and my ruin, there you are again,
my calm after the storm.
I must,
I really must know:
'How is it
that there was never you
until there was
and then all was you?”
―
“I HOLD
If I could have had
him,
I could have let
him
go.
But without
the having
there was
nothing—
so to the nothing
I
hold.”
―
If I could have had
him,
I could have let
him
go.
But without
the having
there was
nothing—
so to the nothing
I
hold.”
―
“I knew he noticed the tress, and the mud, and the children in the street, but I had no reason to believe he'd ever notice me.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“The room was filled with a strange vibe of awkwardness that I was sure could only be dissolved by kissing him again or running away.”
― Boomerang
― Boomerang
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