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Far from despising them she was thinking how pleasant it must be to have such a careless abundance of time together that the whole evenings can be comfortably squandered without a word spoken 2/2

[silent couple in the corner, Gil: promise me we’ll never reach that state] Helen didn’t reply because she was watching the woman tuck her hand into the crook of her husband‘s arm and lay her cheep for the briefest moment on his shoulder as they waiting at the curb for their taxi. 1/2

Mmm ok maybe I see it

Not enjoying it. Why, Kit…

There is virtually no communication. The Greeks are our radar. We have a Greek peasant sitting on the top of every mountain for miles around, and when he spots a bunch of German planes he calls up the Ops Room here on a field telephone. That's our radar
Does it work?
Now and again it does, he said. But most of our spotters don't know a Messerschmitt from a baby-carriage

I should start making notes when I put books on my to read list. Why am I reading this?
Uni, research, plants, PhD student fascination with her advisor, how do parts about poison relate to what comes next? A bit confused, although not irritated

They say nothing lasts forever but they are just scared it will last longer than they can love it

Women shrink from forcing an uninvited intimacy in him […] partly because they mistake his beauty for its frequent synonym, pride, but pride in Tom is only a mellow bashfulness, he is doing most of the shrinking himself

Do you ever feel like the state of Ohio, an inherently even form of equal measures that has been twisted into something new, asymmetrical and weirdly pointy? I don’t think of you as weirdly pointy, i am just asking how you think of yourself

You made me feel irrelevant and totally free

Admiration is love without expectation

India 3k years ago, Buddha

Greece, Sparta, Athens: Olympic Games, architecture, poetry, theatre