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“The tamer my love, the farther away it is from love. In fierceness, in heat, in longing, in risk, I find something of love’s nature. In my desire for you, I burn at the right temperature to walk through love’s fire. So when you ask me why I cannot love you more calmly, I answer that to love you calmly is not to love you at all.”

“I have never been able to stop loving her, or to stop my body leaping at the sight of her. There is no penance that can calm love and no regret that can make it bitter.”

“As I approached you, you held up your hand, and I would gladly have plucked my heart out of my body to make you hold it as you once held it—the core of me in your hands.”

“I was the place where you anchored. I was the deep water where you could be weightless. I was the surface where you saw your own reflection. You scooped me up in your hands.”

“To me, these days will never end. I am always there, in that room with her, or if not I, the imprint of myself—my fossil-love and you discover it.”