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“We don't know what it's like not to be in love with you. We loved you the moment you looked at us, held our hand, danced dirty, kissed us. We were lost in you way before we even met, before the thought crossed your mind that you were bored and we were vaguely good-looking, interesting, exotic, fuckable. While you were weighing options, we were just hoping it wouldn't hurt too much — the fucking, or the falling in love, or the rejection. We didn’t get to choose. — Kai Cheng Thom to -----, 2013 (age 22)”
― Where the Nights Are Twice as Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets
― Where the Nights Are Twice as Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets

“…it was not whim or wildness which made me go, but a sudden clear realization that tho you were the first man of importance to me, you could not be the last. — Gwendolyn MacEwen to Milton Acorn, 1963 (age 21)”
― Where the Nights Are Twice as Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets
― Where the Nights Are Twice as Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets
“Sincerity like this staggers me; I've seen too little and too much of it one way and another; I've valued it so highly that when someone hands it to me as directly as you have, I'm not sure whether I should jump for joy or burst into tears. — Gwendolyn MacEwen to Milton Acorn, 1960 (age 19)”
― Where the Nights Are Twice as Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets
― Where the Nights Are Twice as Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets

“My lips and eyes and heart were stinging when you kissed me in the dark. — Jack Garton to Jennifer Hammer, 2008 (age 24)”
― Where the Nights Are Twice as Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets
― Where the Nights Are Twice as Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets

“Once a man is truly dead and carried pale and cold across the Styx--once Old Bones has put an arm about his shoulders and walked him through the Gate into Darkness--might Science yet summon him back?”
― Will Starling: A Novel
― Will Starling: A Novel

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