Oct 25, 2004 10:32
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
- Margaret Mitchell
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No there is no kiss. Just one embrace. He untugs himself from her walks away, then turns. She is still there. He comes back within a few yards of her, one finger raised to make a point: "I just want you to know. I don't miss you yet."
His face awful to her, trying to smile. Her head sweeps away from him...They have separated already, the walls up at her insistance.
"You will," she says.
From this point on in our lives, she had told whispered to him earlier, we will either find or lose our souls. How does this happen? To fall in love and be disassembled...
-The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
I'm sure this wasn't comforting in the slightest. But at least you know you aren't the only one...even famous authors, like Margaret Mitchell and Michael Ondaatje, feel the same. It's a part of life. Gaining...loosing. The vicious cycle of love then loss....
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