“Look for your other half
Who walks along next to you,
And tends to be what you aren’t.”
― Times Alone: Selected Poems
Who walks along next to you,
And tends to be what you aren’t.”
― Times Alone: Selected Poems
“Sometimes great achievements arrive much later than we expect, but they arrive, and they are great.”
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“No matter how many slow and complicated mysteries I encounters in my life, I still hope that one day a slow and complicated mystery will be solved quickly and simply. An associate of mine calls this feeling “the triumph of hope over experience”, which simply means that it’s never going to happen, and that is what happened then.”
― When Did You See Her Last?
― When Did You See Her Last?
“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.”
― The Secret of Staying in Love
― The Secret of Staying in Love
“Our kiss was electric and soft,
and tentative and certain,
terrifying and exactly right.
I felt the love rush from me to Gat and from Gat to me.
We were warm and shivering,
and young and ancient,
and alive.
I was thinking, It's true. We already love each other.
We already do.”
― We Were Liars
and tentative and certain,
terrifying and exactly right.
I felt the love rush from me to Gat and from Gat to me.
We were warm and shivering,
and young and ancient,
and alive.
I was thinking, It's true. We already love each other.
We already do.”
― We Were Liars
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