“Now I felt the long-forgotten urgency of lovemaking, when it seems one's human selves leave, to be replaced by hungry beasts bolting their food. Gone are the civilized beings who talk of manners and journeys and letters; in their places are two bodies straining to give birth to a burst of inhuman pleasure followed by a great, floating nothingness. An explosion of life followed by death - in this we live, and in this we foreshadow our own sweet deaths.” GivingHumansLongTwoSelfBodySeemsFeltPleasureGoneJourneySweetBirthLettersForgottenHungryMannersBeastCivilizedReplacedNothingnessFloatingExplosionsUrgencyInhumanSweet Death Book:The Memoirs of Cleopatra Source: The Memoirs of Cleopatra
“We are more than our bodies, it is true; but we cannot be divorced from them. They are us, and the only way in which we can see one another. Perhaps the gods are above this, but in their mercy, they have given us the guise of bodies.” WayBodyGivenMercyDivorcedGuise Book:The Memoirs of Cleopatra: A Novel Source: The Memoirs of Cleopatra: A Novel
