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The woman I love
"Haven't you ever heard of the sexual revolution?"
"I'm sorry. The notion of two people spending their entire lives together
"Casual sex doesn't even exist anymore. It's lethal, it's over."
"Nate! Where were you? You could have vibrated with me."
"Boy dreams of girl
I know her answer before she speaks it. I don't hear the words but her message needs no rules of verbal communication. Every time she opens her mouth, every time she closes her eyes, my mind screams that it will be the last time I will ever see her do so. I rise and stumble out, mid-sentence, and she quickly follows. I draw back my open palm and release, giving back a fraction of the pain she had given me. I wanted to run until my lungs would choke on the oxygen. I wanted to punch the walls until the brick and mortar gave away to the flow of blood. I wanted to swim in acid.
"The reason the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that the all-American boy can see better than he can think."
Love without return is like a question without an answer.
"That's what you get for falling in love....
"It's not who you love, it's how you love."
"Through the years and miles between us, it's been a long and lonely ride.
"I've got one last thing to say before I go; give me back all of my stuff." Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated.
"A hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head."
"I'd rather she'd used me for sex. Using me for my mind really bothered me."
"Love is like a drug. When you're on it, you're higher than Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up these defenses, you build this whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life. You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They do something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own any more. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul hurt, a body hurt, a real gets inside you and rips you apart pain. I hate love." "My perfect is girl is the girl that has a pair of eyes and mouth that interact in such a way that when she smiles she also squints a little for an instant, and in that instant you can see in her eyes everything there is to know. When she smiles I see truth, I see hope, I see comfort and I see love. And when I meet a girl like that I can't help but call her perfect." "Love is like the blind leading the blind... into hell."
"I'd rather be a ghost drifting by your side, a condemned spirt,
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