“At best, love is simply the slipping of a hand in another's, of knowing you are where you belong at last, and of exchanging through the eyes that all-consuming regard which ignores everybody else on earth.”

—  Laurie Lee

Source: I Can't Stay Long

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British writer 1914–1997

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