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Ham on Rye

by Charles Bukowski

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May 31, 2026 12:41PM

“I synonymously felt my heart beat rapaciously, the heart which was once void of anything alive and well. Now the heart was rasping and knocking on my ribcage as if it was demanding to come out, take its root and grow.”
― Diyar Harraz, Like The Starlings

tags: aliveness, growth, hearts, laila, longing-for-love

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“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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“Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.”
― Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

tags: absence, long-distance-love, longing, love, separation

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“..and when he let her go, it was as if she had been filled and didn't realize it until he pulled away and the absence rushed back in.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

tags: akiva, desire, destiny, fate, karou, lonely, longing, love

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“lean in to kiss me
in all the places

where the ache
is
the most special.”
― Sanober Khan

tags: ache, body, deep, desires, heart, kiss, kissing, longing, passion, poetry, poetry-quotes, profound, romance, romantic, sensual, sensuality, soul, soulmates, tenderness, touch

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