Carpe Diem

"Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you never will know."

“Your loneliness is precious to you, I know. Does it disturb you to know you are dear to me? Do not let it. It is such a quiet feeling. It is like the light coming into a room—moonlight—”

Kristyna was so shy, so delicate, that love's functions lost their names in her presence. He dared use only the language of breathing and touching. Weren't they beyond the heaviness of words? Wasn't he burning within her?

“She was beautiful, but not like those girls in magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul. She is beautiful.”

“You kiss me with your mouth wide open like you’re not afraid of swallowing poison. I taste the good and bad in you and want them both. We call this bravery.”

I am destroying myself so other people can't," she said, " and it's the worst kind of control but it's the only form I know.

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”

“Isn’t it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?”

Do you like it, that there’s always someone longing for you, in the night?

I’ll hide your name in every word. 

“If you could lick my heart, / it would poison you”