Quote #40

[he] was handsome. Just the sight of him stirred strange longings in me

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  1. I saw he was now and always would be his own man
  2. till we meet again, my heart awaits you.' 'till we meet again, you will trouble my dreams'
  3. You are very lovely now and soon you will be beautiful. Ant not in an ordinary way. Youth is always beautiful, but you are like some creatu…
  4. some men know from birth that they are expendable: they fought to won. If you did not win, you did not run either
  5. I wish. I don't know what I wish. That you were less I were more, perhaps. Yes, just possibly that's it
  6. the little death. What would or could be left of a human being after such an experience?
  7. I apologize.' 'you aren't sorry and don't apologize.'
  8. God, to breathe. Air. You don't know what it means until you cannot take a breath

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