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“I said, you're the beat of my heart, the breath in my body, the light in my soul.”

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An American best-selling author known for her romance novels. Since publishing her first novel in 1981, Nora Roberts has written over 200 books, which have been beloved by readers worldwide. more

“Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counterglance, between ‘I love you’ and ‘I love you too,’ the absent presence of desire comes alive. But the boundaries of time and glance and I love you are only aftershocks of the main, inevitable boundary that creates Eros: the boundary of flesh and self between you and me. And it is only, suddenly, at the moment when I would dissolve that boundary, I realize I never can.”

Self Moments Desire Certain Realizing Issues Alive Love You Flesh Boundaries Inevitable Glances Absent Intervals Eros I Love You Too Between You And Me Aftershock

Book:Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay

Source: Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay

“To say nothing of what you lose, lose, lose, are losing, man. You fool, you stupid fool ... You've even been insulated from the responsibility of genuine suffering ... Even the suffering you do endure is largely unnecessary. Actually spurious. It lacks the very basis you require of it for its tragic nature. You deceive yourself.”

Men Suffering Loses Responsibility Stupid Fool Losing Bases Endure Genuine Tragic Deceiving Unnecessary

Book:Under the Volcano: A Novel

Source: Under the Volcano: A Novel

“Adiós," she added in Spanish, "I have no house only a shadow. But whenever you are in need of a shadow, my shadow is yours." "Thank you." "Sank you." "Not sank you, Señora Gregorio, thank you." "Sank you.”

Needs House Shadow

Book:Under the Volcano: A Novel

Source: Under the Volcano: A Novel

“Benvolio- "By my head, here come the Capulets." Mercutio- "By my heel, I care not.”

Care Heels I Care Juliet Romeo And Juliet Play Romeo Juliet Romeo And Juliet Juliet Romeo And Juliet Romeo Tybalt

Book:The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

Source: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

“He was struck dumb at the words though he should not be surprised; his wife kept him in a perpetual state of speechlessness.”

Should States Wife Dumb Perpetual

Author:Sarah MacLean

“That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep.”

Children Fall Deals Terror

Book:The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set

Source: The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set

“Brenna jumped to her feet the second Father Sinclair entered the chamber. "I'm so happy to see you," she cried out. "Be happy sitting down," Jamie ordered, hovering over her patient like a mother hen.”

Mother Father Feet Sitting Patient Cried Chamber Sitting Down Jamie Hens Hovering Like A Mother Happy To See You

Book:The Wedding

Source: The Wedding

“We had stretched out our arms to each other and supported something in our joined hands, but this thing we were holding was like a sort of gas that exists when you believe in its existence and disappears when you doubt. The task of supporting it seems simple at first glance, but actually requires an ultimate refinement of calculation and a consummate skill.”

Firsts Believe Hands Seems Simple Existence Doubt Arms Skills Tasks Ultimate Disappear Gas Glances Calculations Refinement

Book:Confessions of a Mask

Source: Confessions of a Mask

“To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.”

Book Wonderful Fine Encounters Wonderful Things

Author:Natalie Goldberg

“I cried sobbingly until at last those visions reeking with blood came to comfort me. And then I surrendered myself to them, to those deplorably brutal visions, my most intimate friends.”

Lasts Vision Blood Comfort Intimate Cried Brutal Intimate Friends

Author:Yukio Mishima

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