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Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.”
David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary
Source: The Lover's Dictionary
“She says people ought to learn to live like them, with the body abandoned in a wilderness, and in the mind the memory of a single kiss, a single word, a single look to stand for a whole love.”
Source: Blue Eyes, Black Hair
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