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“I want you flat on your back. Helpless, tender, open with only me to help.”

—Alma, Phantom Thread (2017)

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“The seats are empty. The theatre is dark. Why do you keep acting?”

—Charles Bukowski, “Hurry Slowly,” Come On In!

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“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”

—The Song of Achilles

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You are all I ever wanted love to be.

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Come on, a few kisses won’t ruin our friendship.

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Don’t put me in a position where I have to show you how cold my heart can get.

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We do terrible things for the people we love.

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You know you should not have survived that, right?

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There is gentleness about him.

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Are you going to be something else that I have to survive?

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If you love somebody, let them go… If they come back with coffee, it was meant to be.

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If I showed you who I was would you use it against me?

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and he: (and this was almost unbearable)

he saw me see him,

and I saw him see me.

—The Affliction, Marie Howe

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Nobody is coming to save you. Get up.

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But no, you’re sleeping, and I risk a small kiss on your head to release this wave of affection that threatens to overwhelm me, my small liberty.

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I kissed your hair. I wonder if you knew.

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“Thanks for finding me.”

I wasn't sure if I was dreaming, but somewhere in the dark, I thought I heard him whisper, “Always.”

—Shadow and Bone, Leigh Bardugo