
“But do you love me? If Erik were good-looking, would you love me, Christine?”
Source: The Phantom of the Opera
~1973 by Beau Biden when Hunter was 3 years old, as narrated by Joe Biden in interview with Stephen Colbert as transcribed 11 September 2015 by Jonathan Allen of Vox https://www.vox.com/2015/9/11/9309931/colbert-biden-late-show
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“But do you love me? If Erik were good-looking, would you love me, Christine?”
Source: The Phantom of the Opera
“And looking to the Heaven, that bends above you,
How oft! I bless the Lot, that made me love you.”
"The Presence of Love" (1807), lines 10-11
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Context: He stood up and looked at me even as the seasons might look down upon the field, and He smiled. And He said again: "All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself."
And then He walked away.
But no other man ever walked the way He walked. Was it a breath born in my garden that moved to the east? Or was it a storm that would shake all things to their foundations?
I knew not, but on that day the sunset of His eyes slew the dragon in me, and I became a woman, I became Miriam, Miriam of Mijdel.
Mary Magdalen: On Meeting Jesus For The First Time