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“I will count off the reasons I love you on my fingers. One,” she holds up an index finger in front of his eyes, “I could imagine you killing someone. Two, you are the only person who really listens when I talk. Three, you are always inappropriately hilarious at the worst moments. Four, you have pain inside you that I want to protect you from. Five, you can never read instructions properly, which means we end up in the wrong place, with the wrong things, at the wrong time. Often. Six, you leave me alone. Seven, you let me choose my cats over you when given the choice of saving one or the other from drowning. Eight, you forget and forgive easily. Nine, your dedication to open communication rivals my own. Ten, you calm me and keep me still.”
She is holding up all ten fingers, both hands in front of him. They reach his face and clasp on, probing his skin, entering his eyes, his nose, his mouth. He chews on all those reasons for love and swallows them down into his belly, where he’ll keep them safe. When the time comes for reminding her what she will lose if she leaves, he’ll regurgitate her fingers, like a bird. For a baby."
- http://therealkatiewest.tumblr.com/
I used to collect quotes vigilantly. It's one of the many habits that I've lazily discarded but probably shouldn't have. A telling/relatable/eloquent/etcetc sentence and/or paragraph still makes me feel good.
"...It was not love, but it was a kind of fascination that was not unlike love."
- World Without End, Ken Follett
I still come across stuff everyday that should be requoted. I'm reposting these two because they are the most recent. I'm just about finished World Without End. I didn't enjoy it as much as it's prequel, Pillars of the Earth. I don't know if it's because my tastes have evolved or because the second book just wasn't as good.
She is holding up all ten fingers, both hands in front of him. They reach his face and clasp on, probing his skin, entering his eyes, his nose, his mouth. He chews on all those reasons for love and swallows them down into his belly, where he’ll keep them safe. When the time comes for reminding her what she will lose if she leaves, he’ll regurgitate her fingers, like a bird. For a baby."
- http://therealkatiewest.tumblr.com/
I used to collect quotes vigilantly. It's one of the many habits that I've lazily discarded but probably shouldn't have. A telling/relatable/eloquent/etcetc sentence and/or paragraph still makes me feel good.
"...It was not love, but it was a kind of fascination that was not unlike love."
- World Without End, Ken Follett
I still come across stuff everyday that should be requoted. I'm reposting these two because they are the most recent. I'm just about finished World Without End. I didn't enjoy it as much as it's prequel, Pillars of the Earth. I don't know if it's because my tastes have evolved or because the second book just wasn't as good.