
“Do you love me Hero?" His pale green eyes were full of torment. "Do you love me like I love you?”
Source: Notorious Pleasures
Source: Silver Shadows
“Do you love me Hero?" His pale green eyes were full of torment. "Do you love me like I love you?”
Source: Notorious Pleasures
Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 48
Ch 29
A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959), Fiat Voluntas Tua
Context: He received the Wafer from her hand. She replaced the lid of the ciborium and set the vessel in a more protected spot under a jutting rock. She used no conventional gestures, but the reverence with which she had handled it convinced him of one thing: she sensed the Presence under the veils. She who could not yet use words nor understand them, had done what she had as if by direct instruction, in response to his attempt at conditional baptism. He tried to refocus his eyes to get another look at the face of this being, who by gestures alone had said to him: I do not need your first Sacrament, Man, but I am worthy to convey to you this Sacrament of Life. Now he knew what she was, and he sobbed faintly when he could not again force his eyes to focus on those cool, green, and untroubled eyes of one born free.
“The harvest of a quiet eye,
That broods and sleeps on his own heart.”
Stanza 13.
A Poet's Epitaph (1799)