I've known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful now than then. R….

When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them..

The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken..

Oh, how good it is to be with someone, sometimes..