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Because life is the same as books, Misha. There’s a story and a meanwhile, and we get to say which is which.

We decide what’s the story and what’s the meanwhile.”

when you slow down, you notice more,
and when you notice more, you feel more

“He observes me in that way of his for a long, loaded moment, then touches my face again, as lightly as it is possible to touch anything, as if he’s just walked into a museum with do not touch signs all over the place but a certain painting has bewitched him so thoroughly that he has to, he just has to.”

Funny we never ran into each other.”

“Maybe we did and never noticed.”

“I would have noticed,” he said.

We are a continuum of human experience, neither the worst nor the best thing we have ever done. Or, more exactly, we are both the best thing and the worst thing we’ve ever done. We are all of it, all at once, all the time

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it gives you the idea that you and he exist alone in the moment

I’m just a person, who hopes to become a good person

“I suspect you could read the dictionary under a tree and birds would cease their singing in order to listen.”

Maybe tears hide away in the body until such time as they can spout safely. Freely. In the clear.
I guess I’m in the clear.