“This is love, I think, to hold a name carefully between the teeth, to hold without swallowing.”
Quote by Sondra Charbadze
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The Sea Once Swallowed Me: A Memoir of Love, Solitude, and the Limits of Language
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“A thousand men could not keep me warm. My soulmate is the totality of the teeming earth.”
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