How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.
mariansalomonhar citeretfor 7 år siden
However much his wild thoughts varied between a passionate desire for her kisses and an equally passionate craving to hurt and mar her, the residue of his mind craved in finer fashion to possess the triumphant soul that had shone through those three minutes.
mariansalomonhar citeretfor 7 år siden
"This is all. It's been very rare to have known you, very strange and wonderful. But this wouldn't do—and wouldn't last."
mariansalomonhar citeretfor 8 år siden
She was deeply herself
mariansalomonhar citeretfor 8 år siden
No, only the romanticist preserves the things worth preserving.
mariansalomonhar citeretfor 8 år siden
But I never want to change people or get excited over them.
mariansalomonhar citeretfor 8 år siden
Maury gazed helplessly into space. "Well, I can't describe her exactly—except to say that she was beautiful. She was—tremendously alive. She was eating gum-drops.
mariansalomonhar citeretfor 8 år siden
wedded to a vague melancholy that was to stay beside him through the rest of his life.
София Техажеваhar citeretfor 8 år siden
forgotten her vividness of emotion, which is true forgetting.
b6221027333har citeretfor 2 måneder siden
There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses—bound for dust—mortal