words from him, and I had seen my pouting apathy change into I’ll play anything for you till you ask me to stop, till it’s time for lunch, till the skin on my fingers wears off layer after layer, because I like doing things for you, will do
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“Love conquers, deceitful and slow, With a soft amateurish refrain. So strange to think – not long ago You weren’t dejected and gray.”
― Evening: Poetry of Anna Akhmatova
― Evening: Poetry of Anna Akhmatova
“Because it always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk.”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
“First as a serpent, it’ll cast its spell Next to your heart, curled up. Then it’ll come as a dove as well, Cooing for days nonstop.”
― Evening: Poetry of Anna Akhmatova
― Evening: Poetry of Anna Akhmatova
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