“When he comes into a room, you give a little gasp, deep inside, far inside,' someone once said when trying to describe what it meant to love.” GivingTryingLittlesSaidRoomsDeep Inside Book:Helen of Troy: A Novel Source: Helen of Troy: A Novel
“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
