I crossed the room, and what you did was to feel my hair over and over again and in different ways, touch it, with the palm of your hand... felt it, strands of hair, with your fingers, touched it as if it were cloth, the way a child touches its favorite surfaces.
Interpretation
This quote expresses a deep, tender moment of affection and intimacy.
In this quote, Edna O'Brien captures the beauty of a gentle and loving touch, illustrating how intimate gestures can convey profound emotions. The act of feeling someone's hair reflects not just physical attraction, but a deep appreciation and connection, reminiscent of the innocent ways children explore the world around them. It highlights the simplicity and significance of touch in human relationships.
In practice
During a romantic dinner, you might quote this to evoke the warmth of shared moments.
Love . . . is like nature, but in reverse; first it fruits, then it flowers, then it seems to wither, then it goes deep, deep down into its burrow, where no one sees it, where it is lost from sight, and ultimately people die with that secret buried inside their souls.
That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open.
Cities, in many ways, are the best repositories for a love affair. You are in a forest or a cornfield, you are walking by the seashore, footprint after footprint of trodden sand, and somehow the kiss or the spoken covenant gets lost in the vastness and indifference of nature. In a city there are places to remind us of what has been.
Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.
Oh, love, what an unreasoning creature it grew to be.
Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
Can you love or guide someone without any kind of expectation?
To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
When I first saw you, I saw love_x000D_ _x000D_ And the first time you touched me, I felt love_x000D_ _x000D_ And after all this time,_x000D_ _x000D_ You're still the one I love.
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.
Whatsoever is done out of pure love, be it ever so little or contemptible in the sight of men, is wholly fruitful; for God measures more with how much love one worketh, than the amount he doeth.
Lukewarm people love others but do not seek to love others as much as they love themselves.
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