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1 " A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. "
― Jessica Brockmole , Letters from Skye
2 " Si me detuviera a recordar cómo te sientes cuando te agazapas bajo el fuego de las ametralladoras, sin nada que se interponga frente a las balas salvo tu casco y tus manos entrelazadas en la nuca; si me detuviera a recordar la cantidad de kilómetros que recorrimos penosamente sólo para ver cómo los chicos de delante pisaban una mina; si me detuviera a recordar cómo me agachaba en la oscuridad, sin saber si el silbido de la siguiente bomba llevaría mi nombre; si me detuviera a recordar los comentarios en voz baja de los muchachos de alrededor, que no sabían que yo había estado allí arriba, haciendo mi trabajo…, la verdad es que no conseguiría seguir adelante. Tengo que repetirme a mí mismo que volveré a estar contigo en un abrir y cerrar de ojos. No puedo hacer más. "
3 " La guerra es impulsiva, me dijo, y después lo único que te quedan son fantasmas. "
4 " You're my breath, my light, the one my heart flies towards. "
5 " ... that a letter isn't always just a letter. Words on page can drench the soul. "
6 " I think all of the experience in the world couldn't prepare someone for the very first time they are with a person they love. "
7 " Don't let me go off to the front without having touched you for the first time, without having heard your voice say my name. Don't let me go off to the front without a memory of you in my heart. "
8 " You glided over to me and, as I was struggling to think of something intelligent to say, you said "There you are". I often think of that, Sue. Here I am. No matter where I am in the world, "Here I am". "
9 " As tired as I am, Sue, my dreams are always of you. "
10 " If you knew how it feels to run after someone for a brief snatch of time, how the world stops spinning, just for a moment, when you hold them in your arms, and then starts again so fast that you fall to the ground, dizzy. If you knew how every hello hurts more than a hundred goodbyes. "
11 " Perhaps this isn't your boat. Perhaps it doesn't sail where you want to go. "
12 " Me - the poet - lost for words. "
13 " The very sound of our voices was so odd. So banal. I confess I couldn't wait to get back to my notepaper and pen to tell you how I felt. "
14 " Let me hold you a little while longer. "
15 " You of all people, who seem to know things about me before I myself do. You know this is right. "
16 " If I wasn't certain you were bigger than my thumb, I should've guessed your dress was fashioned from rose petals and spiders' web. "
17 " It is marvelous to see the raw play of emotions on the face of a child. No trying to conceal any feeling or disguise one emotion as something else. "
18 " You need to decide if you want to be on the ferry when it sets off or if you are happier back on the sturdy pier. "
19 " I know that you are not a man content to wait behind and just watch as the ferry chugs away. But perhaps this isn’t your boat. Perhaps it doesn’t sail where you want to go. You’ll make the right decision. I think you already know what it is. E "
20 " Please don’t give away your heart without realizing it, because, my sweet girl, you may never get it back. "
