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Let us begin this letter, this prelude to an encounter, formally, as a declaration, in the old-fashioned way: I love you. You do not know me (although...more

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The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming.

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I really don't know what "I love you" means.I think it means "Don't leave me here alone.

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I will write in words of fire.I will write them on your skin.I will write about desire.Write beginnings, write of sin.You’re the book I love the best,...more

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It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

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If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

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I don’t think that I’ve been in love as suchAlthough I liked a few folk pretty wellLove must be vaster than my smiles or touchfor brave men died and e...more

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He had kissed her good night that night, and she had tasted like strawberry daiquiris, and he had never wanted to kiss anyone else again.

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It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.

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I am the only one of us who brings in any money. the other two cannot make money fortune telling. this is because they only tell the truth, and the tr...more

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For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.

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Everything that is,casts a shadow

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They were kissing. Put like that, and you could be forgiven for presuming that this was a normal kiss, all lips and skin and possibly even a little to...more

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It always rains on the unloved-wet dreams-a fishing expedition-she kisses wyverns (the disneyland analogy)-dinner etiquette and chocolate lovers-desir...more

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Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.