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Now his blessedness appeared.
Professor Emerson was an ass. But at least now he knew it.
“You blossom under kindness, don’t you? Like a rose.”
“Then I’m glad I’m your first.”
“You’re beautiful, Beatrice. Like a brown-eyed angel.”
Apparuit iam beatitudo vestra.”
“For the rest of my life, I’ll dream of hearing your voice breathe my name.”
For baiser in French could mean either the innocence of a kiss or the animalistic quality of a fuck.
“That would rather defeat the purpose of watching, don’t you think?”
“I can feed myself,” she breathed uncertainly. “Of course you can. But why should you, when I’m here to do it for you?”
“Facilis descensus Averni,”
sight, scent, sound, taste, touch…as
Yours, Gabriel
“Ti amo, Dante. Eccomi Beatrice. I love you, Dante. Here I am, Beatrice.”
“Audentes fortuna iuvat.
I will spend the rest of my life regretting the fact that I wasted my second chance to know you. And I will always be conscious of your absence.
“Tell me that you want me, or get out.”
You don’t want to feast on my body, but at least feast on my cake.”
Lo seme di felicità messo de Dio nell’ anima ben posta.”
the seed of happiness placed by God in s well positioned soul
You’re my missing half. You’re my bashert.”
Conosco i segni dell’antica fiamma.
i recognize the signs of an old flame
“Everything is up to you. You can rescue me or banish me with a single word.”
“Sex is properly understood to be not only physical, but spiritual—an ecstatic union of two bodies and two souls, meant to mimic the joy and ecstasy of union with the Divine in Paradise. Two bodies joined together in pleasure. Two souls joined through the connection between two bodies and the whole-hearted, enthusiastic, selfless giving of the entire self.”
“It’s pedantic perhaps to point out that if one holds back and doesn’t give one’s entire self during intercourse, orgasm will be eluded. The result is tension, frustration, and an unhappy partner. The moment of orgasm is a foretaste of absolute transcendence and wholehearted, rapturous pleasure. The kind of pleasure in which all of one’s deepest urges
and longings are wholly and heart-stoppingly satisfied.”
“Being without you, Julianne, is like enduring an endless night without stars.”
Professor Emerson is an ass man.
“It only aches in your absence.” He pressed his lips to hers reverently. “You’re killing me.” She tossed her hair back and grinned. “But it will be a sweet, sweet death.”
“Julianne, I am not going to leave you. You don’t understand how important you are to me. I can’t even imagine what it would be like to lose you.”
“I want to make love to you because I care about you. I want to worship your naked body with my own and learn all of your secrets. I want to please you, not for minutes, but for hours and even days. I want to see you arch your back in ecstasy and look into your eyes when I make you come.”
“I burn for you, Julianne, but it’s more than just a physical hunger. I crave you,
‘With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.’”
When I told you that I was intending to worship you with my body, I meant it. With all my heart. I will never take from you. I will only give. In my bed and outside of it.”
“You strip me bare. You see through everything. You are the only one who has ever known everything and still wanted me. Only you, my beloved.”
“Color di perle ha quasi in forma, quale convene a donna aver, non for misura; ella è quanto de ben pò far natura; per esemplo di lei bieltà si prova. De li occhi suoi, come ch’ella li mova, escono spirti d’amore inflammati, che fèron li occhi a qual che allor la guati, e passan sì che ‘l cor ciascun retrova: voi le vedete Amor pinto nel viso, là ‘ve non pote alcun mirarla fiso.”
“La gloriosa donna della mia mente.
