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but he looked away [from my hands], as though he had seen into the most vulnerable part of my body.

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 but he looked away [from my hands], as though he had seen into the most vulnerable part of my body.

Apr 18,2021

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#quotes #reading #lit #m #x #prose #favourite #the body electric #yoko ogawa #the memory police #the imprints of our hands will merge #japanese lit

there is a fragrance about her that is lovelier to me than meadows of sun-dried hay,

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 there is a fragrance about her that is lovelier to me than meadows of sun-dried hay,

Apr 13,2021

100

#quotes #poetry #lit #m #x #love songs #the body electric #the lovers #FR #james oppenheim #i slithered here from eden

Nothing is ever as beautiful as the first isolated moments with someone who might be able to love you — with someone

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 Nothing is ever as beautiful as the first isolated moments with someone who might be able to love you — with someone

Nov 05,2020

100

#quotes #reading #lit #m #x #prose #the body electric #stig dagerman #a moth to a flame #swedish lit #the lovers

…your voice, the colour of a cautious dawn.

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 …your voice, the colour of a cautious dawn.

Nov 05,2020

119

#quotes #reading #lit #m #x #letters #the body electric #the lovers #vladimir nabokov

I first felt hopeless admiration when I watched him come off the court after a game of tennis, pulling off his shirt as

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 I first felt hopeless admiration when I watched him come off the court after a game of tennis, pulling off his shirt as

Oct 26,2020

128

#quotes #reading #lit #m #x #prose #the body electric #helen simpson #four bare legs in a bed #the lovers

bless the sky inside his body, the sky my medicine, the sky my country.

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 bless the sky inside his body, the sky my medicine, the sky my country.

Oct 18,2020

171

#quotes #poetry #reading #lit #m #x #ilya kaminsky #envoi #dancing in odessa #the body electric #the dreamer