January 2011
24 posts
WHERE IS THE CATCH?
“Long live the walls we crashed through
While the kingdom lights shined just for...”
– Long Live, Taylor Swift
“But I finally know what to do
I must quit, I must quit, you”
– Coffee and Cigarettes, Michelle Featherstone
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly...”
– C.S. Lewis
“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a...”
– Sarah Dessen (The Truth about Forever)
poetic memory
Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
The Incredible Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
looking down at stars
All this time he was sitting up in bed and looking at the woman who was lying beside him and holding his hand in her sleep. He felt an ineffable love for her. Her sleep must have been very light at the moment because she opened her eyes and gazed up at him questioningly.
“What are you looking at?” she asked.
He knew that instead of waking her he should lull her back to sleep, so he...
