How does this happen? To fall in love and be disassembled.
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The English Patient
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...the heart is an organ of fire.
How does this happen? To fall in love and be disassembled.
She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.
Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again.
You have to protect yourself from sadness. Sadness is very close to hate. Let me tell you this. This is the thing I learned. If you take in someone else’s poison – thinking you can cure them by sharing it – you will instead store it within you.
I promise, I'll come back for you. I promise, I'll never leave you.
— Amalsy, amazon.com
Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book.
There was a time when mapmakers named the places they travelled through with the names of lovers rather than their own.