You nod and watch her. She is an exceptionally beautiful girl. You think of that old saying Show me a beautiful girl and I’ll show you someone who is tired of fucking her. You doubt you would have ever tired of her, though.
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Entries Tagged as 'Love'
That Old Saying – “This Is How You Lose Her”, Junot Diaz
November 29th, 2012 · Comments Off on That Old Saying – “This Is How You Lose Her”, Junot Diaz · Description, Love, Quotes, Writing
Falling In Love Over an Expression – “This Is How You Lose Her”, Junot Diaz
November 29th, 2012 · Comments Off on Falling In Love Over an Expression – “This Is How You Lose Her”, Junot Diaz · Description, Love, Writing
You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture.
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Heart Plunging – “This Is How You Lose Her”, Junot Diaz
November 27th, 2012 · Comments Off on Heart Plunging – “This Is How You Lose Her”, Junot Diaz · Description, Love, Writing
Yes—it’s an opposites-attract sort of thing, it’s a great-sex sort of thing, it’s a no-thinking sort of thing. It’s wonderful! Wonderful! Until one June day Alma discovers that you are also fucking this beautiful freshman girl named Laxmi, discovers the fucking of Laxmi because she, Alma, the girlfriend, opens your journal and reads. (Oh, she […]
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Thinking About the Beginning – “This Is How You Lose Her”, Junot Diaz
November 26th, 2012 · Comments Off on Thinking About the Beginning – “This Is How You Lose Her”, Junot Diaz · Love
All I can manage is a memory of the first time me and Magda talked. Back at Rutgers. We were waiting for an E bus together on George Street and she was wearing purple. All sorts of purple. And that’s when I know it’s over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it’s […]
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The Flattering Light of the Subjunctive – “Leaving the Atocha Station”, Ben Lerner
November 10th, 2012 · Comments Off on The Flattering Light of the Subjunctive – “Leaving the Atocha Station”, Ben Lerner · Love, Prose, Writing
The relationship I might have had in the flattering light of the subjunctive.
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Stronger at the Broken Places – “A Moveable Feast”, Ernest Hemingway
November 3rd, 2012 · Comments Off on Stronger at the Broken Places – “A Moveable Feast”, Ernest Hemingway · Love, Quotes
Nobody climbs on skis now and almost everybody breaks their legs but maybe it is easier in the end to break your legs than to break your heart although they say that everything breaks now and that sometimes, afterwards, many are stronger at the broken places.
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Happiness – “A Moveable Feast”, Ernest Hemingway
November 2nd, 2012 · Comments Off on Happiness – “A Moveable Feast”, Ernest Hemingway · Description, Love, Writing
We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.
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Travelling Partners – “A Moveable Feast”, Ernest Hemingway
November 1st, 2012 · Comments Off on Travelling Partners – “A Moveable Feast”, Ernest Hemingway · Love, Quotes, Travel
Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.
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Partnership – “A Moveable Feast”, Ernest Hemingway
November 1st, 2012 · Comments Off on Partnership – “A Moveable Feast”, Ernest Hemingway · Love
When you have two people who love each other, are happy and gay and really good work is being done by one or both of them, people are drawn to them as surely as migrating birds are drawn at night to a powerful beacon. If the two people were as solidly constructed as the beacon […]
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Interest and Power – “Goodbye to Berlin”, Christopher Isherwood
May 17th, 2012 · Comments Off on Interest and Power – “Goodbye to Berlin”, Christopher Isherwood · Love, Power, Writing
If Otto wishes to humiliate Peter, Peter in his different way, also wishes to humiliate Otto. He wants to force Otto into making a certain kind of submission to his will, and this submission Otto refuses instinctively to make. Otto is naturally and healthily selfish, like an animal. If there are two chairs in a […]
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