“O, how I wish I had never seen him! Loving is misery for women always.”
― Far From the Madding Crowd
― Far From the Madding Crowd
“She heard footsteps brushing the grass, and had a consciousnesss that love was encircling her like a perfume.”
― Far From the Madding Crowd
― Far From the Madding Crowd
“How do I describe the feeling that envelopes my being when he is near? It is like a cocoon of warmth and peace, but beneath that there is a deep longing, a hunger that one kiss would not be able to satisfy, one kiss would only make the hunger greater. But oh, how I long for that kiss, a kiss that might never come.
Being close to him does things to me, makes me feel things I never knew existed, makes me want things I have never wanted before. I have never desired to know a man's body before I met Ariston. I wonder if he knows that I desire him in such a way, that I not only want to know his body, but that I want him to know mine. There is a part of me that would not care if he loves me or not if I could just have one beautiful, passionate night with him, while the rest of me knows that one night would never be enough.”
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Being close to him does things to me, makes me feel things I never knew existed, makes me want things I have never wanted before. I have never desired to know a man's body before I met Ariston. I wonder if he knows that I desire him in such a way, that I not only want to know his body, but that I want him to know mine. There is a part of me that would not care if he loves me or not if I could just have one beautiful, passionate night with him, while the rest of me knows that one night would never be enough.”
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“And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
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