For Ria...

[vittorio81]

"If you do not think yourself beautiful, then you are using a different mirror from the one in front of my eyes. It is true, perhaps, that your beauty is not a flashy beauty, but it is beauty nonetheless. Perhaps the more precious, for it grows not at the first sight of the eye, but a little more each time one speaks with you, or watches the truth in your eyes when you say you are not beautiful, and I realize that you mean it. That you are not being humble, or playing silly games, you simply do not see yourself. But do you not see, that there is beauty that hits the eye like a bolt of lightning, that burns and scars and sears and blinds. It is more disaster than pleasure. But yours, yours is a beauty that lulls one into comfort, into not protecting one's eyes from the light, then one night you realize that the moon, too, has its beauty."

I had read this quote in a book ages ago and it reminded me of her...

I love you, Ria...with all my heart and soul.