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“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― 100 Love Sonnets
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― 100 Love Sonnets
“For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.”
― Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
― Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
“she wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence.”
― The Pilgrimage
― The Pilgrimage
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