“In her absence I created her image: out of the earthly the hidden heavenly commences.”— Mahmoud Darwish, poetryfoundation.org
“The thought of her flooded every corner of my mind with light and poured brightness into miraculous lofts I hadn’t even known were there, vistas that seemed to exist not at all except in relationship to her.”— Donna Tartt, Theodore Decker, amazon.com
“All I had to do was sink into the blood-warm current and let myself spin away to the secret place where everything was all right: Pippa’s face pale in the dark.”— Donna Tartt, amazon.com
“Eighty years later he could still recall with the young pang of the original joy his falling in love with Ada. At ninety-four he liked retracing that first amorous summer not as a dream he had just had but as a recapitulation of consciousness to sustain him in the small gray hours between shallow sl…”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com