“She didn't want to touch the baby. Didn't want to know if she was dead. But still she reached down, her arms underneath that small body, and pulled it up against her. The body was burning with fever.
But alive. Alive!”
Source: Water Street (2006), Chapters 21-29, p. 131
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American children's writer 1935Related quotes
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Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
Context: Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river.
You can hear the boats go by,
You can spend the night beside her,
And you know that she's half crazy
But that's why you want to be there,
And she feeds you tea and oranges
That come all the way from China.
And just when you mean to tell her
That you have no love to give her
Then she gets you on her wavelength
And she lets the river answer
That you've always been her lover.
And you want to travel with her,
And you want to travel blind,
And you know that she will trust you,
For you've touched her perfect body with your mind.
Preaching Poison http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/stalinsky200403190914.asp (March 2004)
“Told her she was beautiful. Didn't give up when she didn't believe me.”
Source: The Realm of Possibility
