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“And I would hide my face in you, and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.”

“Then, for the first time in my life, I was really aware of another person’s body, of another person’s smell. We had our arms around each other. It was like a holding in my hand some rare, exhausted, nearly doomed bird which I had miraculously happened to find.”

“It’s astounding the first time you realize that a stranger has a body – the realization that he has a body makes him a stranger. It means that you have a body, too. You will live with this forever, and it will spell out the language of your life.”

“How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.”