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1 " But death is stronger than that and when you cover your eyes you are the one who can't see the dark. The dark still sees you. "
― Francesca Lia Block , The Elementals
2 " In order to have bliss you have to be able to accept all the parts of the other, all the wildness and the darkness. You have to be able to hold on. "
3 " It’s hard to remember what you fall in love with. Usually it is an expression in the eyes, an exchange, or a gesture or the sound of a voice, a word spoken. Those things can get blended with the atmosphere around you at the time — a fragrance in the air, a play of light, even music — so that they become almost one with each other and when you see or smell or hear the memories of a place you feel the love again, but as a pang of loss. Sometimes the feelings get connected so deeply to your body that even your own skin, your own eyes in the mirror remind you of what you no longer have. Sometimes it only takes a few things for someone to attach the way I did — enough hunger, enough loneliness, enough loss, someone who will feed you and touch you and listen. Sometimes attachment — call it love — is more complex than that. When you are in the state I was in, love can be tied up with other things, like excitement and danger, and the desire to know what really happened, what actually took place. "
4 " I said I was an English major, that I wanted to write someday, that I read the way other people ate chocolate. "
5 " When someone so young and lovely vanishes they leave a cutout in the atmosphere; they don't fade. They leave a place for the sun rays to cut through and burn us, melt all the important ice to floods. "
6 " Like Beauty. But she only pricked her finger. I had a spindle through my heart. "
7 " We no longer believe in fairy tales. But we will learn to believe in monsters. "