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

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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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You know what my mum once said?’ said Rosie… ‘She said that if a just-married couple put a coin in a jar every time they make love in their first year...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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Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves in a melting frenzy of lust, spending the last of t...more

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It’s a way of talking about lust without talking about lust, he told them. It is a way of talking about sex, and fear of sex, and death, and fear of d...more

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You are young, and in love," said Primus. "Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.

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Belinda stared into the fire for some time, thinking about what she had in her life, and what she had given up; and whether it would be worse to love ...more

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So what I want to know is why it is that I can no longer find you, in my mind. You are still there, just, but you are there like a ghost, a will o' th...more

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I am the most miserable person who ever lived," he said... "You are young, and in love," said Primus. "Every young man in your position is the most mi...more