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Also I could hear Amanda’s voice: Why are you being so weak? Love’s never a fair trade. So Jimmy’s tired of you, so what, there’s guys all over the pl...more

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The Eskimo has fifty-names for snow because it is important to them there ought to be as many for love.

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A truth should exist,it should not be usedlike this. If I love youis that a fact or a weapon?

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The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

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Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: whe...more

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I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.

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Ah men,why do you want all this attention?I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutelynecessary. What do you have to offer meI ...more

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The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them there ought to be as many for love.

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Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love.

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Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away ...more

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How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.

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Messy love is better than none.I guess. I'm no authorityon sane living.

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This form of love is like the painof childbirth: so intenseit's hard to remember afterwards,

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Falling in love, although it resulted in altered body chemistry and was therefore real, was a hormonally induced delusional state, according to him. I...more

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Every child should have love, every person should have it. She herself would rather have had her mother's love - the love she still continued to belie...more