β
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhere
I go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)
I fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)I want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.
β
β
Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)
β
For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.
β
β
E.E. Cummings (100 Selected Poems)
β
We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness
β
β
E.E. Cummings (Poems, 1923-1954)
β
Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
Lovers alone wear sunlight.
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
listen: thereβs a hell
of a good universe next door; letβs go
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
Here, Iβll show you how to use it. Let me see your foot.β
βThatβs a pretty intimate demand in the angel world. It usually takes dinner, some wine, and sparkling conversation for me to give up my feet.
β
β
Susan Ee (Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1))
β
My friends call me Wrath,β says Raffe. βMy enemies call me Please Have Mercy. Whatβs your name, soldier boy?
β
β
Susan Ee (Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1))
β
i like my body when it is with your
body. It is so quite new a thing.
Muscles better and nerves more.
i like your body. i like what it does,
i like its hows. i like to feel the spine
of your body and its bones, and the trembling
-firm-smooth ness and which i will
again and again and again
kiss, i like kissing this and that of you,
i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz
of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes
over parting flesh ... And eyes big love-crumbs,
and possibly i like the thrill
of under me you so quite new.
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
I knew from the start that your loyalty would get you killed. I just never thought it would be your loyalty to me that would do it.
β
β
Susan Ee (Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1))
β
Oh, please. Your giant head is getting too big for this forest. Pretty soon, you're going to get stuck trying to walk between two tress. And then, I'll have to rescue you." I give him a weary look. "Again.
β
β
Susan Ee (Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1))
β
It is painful to see that people prefer a bad guy who looks like an angel to a good guy who looks like a demon.
β
β
Susan Ee (World After (Penryn & the End of Days, #2))
β
Anybody that ties you to a chair at gunpoint is a bad guy. Do I really need to explain this?
β
β
Susan Ee (Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1))
β
I never kid about my warrior demigod status."
"Oh. My. God." I lower my voice, having forgotten to whisper. "You are nothing but a bird with an attitude. Okay, so you have a few muscles, Iβll grant you that. But you know, a bird is nothing but a barely evolved lizard. Thatβs what you are.
β
β
Susan Ee (Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1))
β
since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
my blood approves,
and kisses are a far better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
--the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says
we are for eachother: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
I'm gonna be sick," I said
"I'm ordering you not to," says Obi.
"Ah, don't say that," says Dee-Dum. "She's a born rebel. She'll puke just to make a point.
β
β
Susan Ee (World After (Penryn & the End of Days, #2))
β
It is not the gentle kiss of a couple on a first date, nor is it the kiss of a man driven by simple lust. He kisses me with the desperation of a dying man who believes the magic of eternal life is in this kiss.
β
β
Susan Ee (Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1))
β
a wind has blown the rain away & the sky away & all the leaves away, & the trees stand. i think i, too, have known autumn too long.
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
Why were the other angels attacking you?"
"It's impolite to ask the victim of violence what they did to be attacked.
β
β
Susan Ee (Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1))
β
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)
β
β
E.E. Cummings (Selected Poems)
β
Itβs amazing how many times we need to go against our survival instincts to survive.
β
β
Susan Ee (World After (Penryn & the End of Days, #2))
β
I never thought about it before, but I'm proud to be human. We're ever so flawed. We're frail, confused, violent, and we struggle with so many issues. But all in all, I'm proud to be a Daughter of Man.
β
β
Susan Ee (Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1))
β
i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
One's not half of two; two are halves of one.
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.
β
β
E.E. Cummings (Selected Poems)
β
I look up to say something but he puts his finger to my lips and whispers, βDonβt talk. Youβll just spoil my fantasy of rescuing an innocent damsel in distress as soon as you open your mouth.
β
β
Susan Ee (World After (Penryn & the End of Days, #2))
β
So long as you don't bleed in the shape of wing joints, you should pass for human. Oh, and don't let anyone pick you up. They'll know you're not right as soon as they feel how light you are."
"I'll be sure not to let anyone but you carry me in her arms.
β
β
Susan Ee (Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1))
β
When you're small enough to have to look up at everyone around you, there's no such thing as a dirty fight. That's a new motto for me. I think I'll keep it.
β
β
Susan Ee (Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1))
β
She? Youβre not one of those people who name their cars and coffee mugs, are you? Itβs an inanimate object. Get over it.
β
β
Susan Ee (Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1))
β
She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
A little weird? That was freakin' Bizarroville."
He pauses and looks back at me.
"Are you speaking English?
β
β
Susan Ee (Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1))
β
In the long second before everyone absorbs what just happened, I see the angel rolling his eyes heavenward, like a teenager in the presence of overwhelming lameness. Some people just have no sense of gratitude.
β
β
Susan Ee (Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1))
β
We now play a permanent game of I-am-crazier-and-scarier-than-you. And in that game, my mother is our secret weapon.
β
β
Susan Ee (Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1))
β
Your sense of judgement could use a dash of common sense.
β
β
Susan Ee (Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1))
β
may my heart always be open to little
birds who are the secrets of living
whatever they sing is better than to know
and if men should not hear them men are old
may my mind stroll about hungry
and fearless and thirsty and supple
and even if it's sunday may i be wrong
for whenever men are right they are not young
and may myself do nothing usefully
and love yourself so more than truly
there's never been quite such a fool who could fail
pulling all the sky over him with one smile
β
β
E.E. Cummings (E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962 (Revised, Corrected, and Expanded Edition))
β
Anybody can learn to think, or believe, or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel... the moment you feel, you're nobody β but-yourself β in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else β means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
You're not Fallen are you?"
"From everything I've heard, that would just make me more sexy to you Daughters of Men. What is it that you all see in bad boys?
β
β
Susan Ee (World After (Penryn & the End of Days, #2))
β
Sometimes, as we're stumbling along in the dark, we hit something good.
β
β
Susan Ee (Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1))
β
most people are perfectly afraid of silence
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
You're naming your collector's-item, kick-ass sword that's made to maim and kill, specifically designed to bring your ginormous enemies to their knees and hear the lamentation of their women-Pooky Bear?"
"Yeah, you like it?
β
β
Susan Ee (World After (Penryn & the End of Days, #2))
β
The next time you have a quarrel with me, I'd appreciate it if you could just talk to me first before resorting to pelting me with rocks.
β
β
Susan Ee (Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1))
β
twice I have lived forever in a smile
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
And now you are and I am and we're a mystery which will never happen again.
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
I wonder which will get you killed fasterβyour loyalty or your stubbornness?
β
β
Susan Ee (Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1))
β
How long did you resist?β asks Uriel. βDid you push her away? Did you tell her she meant no more to you than any other animal? Oh, Raffe, did she die thinking you didn't care about her? How tragic. That must just tear you to pieces.β
Raffe looks up with murder in his eyes. βDon't. Talk. About. Her.
β
β
Susan Ee (Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1))
β
He runs his finger tips along my cheek, caressing my face. βHush. Iβm right here.β He looks at me with deep anguish in his eyes. Like thereβs so much he wants to tell me but feels itβs too late now. I want to stroke his face and tell him that it will be okay. That everything will be all right. And I wish so badly that it would be.
β
β
Susan Ee (Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1))
β
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
It's about time you showed some sense. You should be afraid."
"I'm shivering because I'm freezing."
"You're cute when you're afraid."
I give him a dirty look. "Yeah, you're cute when you're afraid too."
"You mean I'm devastatingly handsome when I'm not afraid. Because you've never seen me afraid.
β
β
Susan Ee (World After (Penryn & the End of Days, #2))
β
I'm not moping," I whisper back. "Of course you're not. A girl like you, spending time with a warrior demigod like me. What's to mope about? Leaving a wheelchair behind couldn't possibly show up on the radar compared to that."
"You've got to be kidding me."
"I never kid about my warrior demigod status.
β
β
Susan Ee (Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1))
β
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing
(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands
-excerpt of #35 from "100 Selected Poems
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience, your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near
your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose
or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing
(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands
β
β
E.E. Cummings (Selected Poems)
β
I love you much
most beautiful darling
more than anyone on the earth
and I like you better
than everything in the sky.
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
I've never killed anyone before. What frightens me isn't that I'm killing someone. What frightens me is how easy it is.
β
β
Susan Ee (Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1))
β
What if they donβt let us go through?β I ask, trying not to move my lips.
βThey will,β he answers from the dark recesses of the backseat footwell.
βHow do you know?β
βBecause you have the look theyβre looking for.β
βWhat look is that?β
βBeautiful.β His voice is like a caress from the shadows.
β
β
Susan Ee (Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1))
β
You're like a little girl demanding answers to questions during a covert operation. Why is the sky blue, daddy? Can I ask that man with the machine gun where the bathroom is? If you don't stay quiet, I'm going to have to dump you.
β
β
Susan Ee (Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1))
β
Angels are violent creatures.β
βSo I noticed. I used to think they were all sweet and kind.β
βWhy would you think that? Even in your Bible, weβre harbingers of doom, willing and able to destroy entire cities. Just because we sometimes warned one or two of you beforehand doesnβt make us altruistic.
β
β
Susan Ee (Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1))
β
since the thing perhaps is
to eat flowers and not to be afraid
β
β
E.E. Cummings (E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962 (Revised, Corrected, and Expanded Edition))
β
in time of daffodils(who know
the goal of living is to grow)
forgetting why,remember how
in time of lilacs who proclaim
the aim of waking is to dream,
remember so(forgetting seem)
in time of roses(who amaze
our now and here with paradise)
forgetting if,remember yes
in time of all sweet things beyond
whatever mind may comprehend,
remember seek(forgetting find)
and in a mystery to be
(when time from time shall set us free)
forgetting me,remember me
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
Asleep, he looks like a bleeding Prince Charming chained in the dungeon. When I was little, I always thought Iβd be Cinderella, but I guess this makes me the wicked witch.
But then again, Cinderella didnβt live in a post-apocalyptic world invaded by avenging angels.
β
β
Susan Ee (Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1))
β
Either he's shaken by something or he's falling off the wagon hard and fast. Great. Just my luck to be partnered with an alcoholic angel.
β
β
Susan Ee (Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1))
β
his lips drink water
but his heart drinks wine
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
Let go," I say into his ear.
Raffe holds me tighter like thereβs no room for discussion.
β
β
Susan Ee (World After (Penryn & the End of Days, #2))
β
A sense of humor is one more thing I don't think angels should have. The fact that his sense of humor is corny makes it even more wrong.
β
β
Susan Ee (Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1))
β
She wasnβt made to be alone.β
βI guess none of us are.β
Our eyes meet and an electric tingle runs through me.
βShe missed you,β I say in a whisper.
βDid she?β His voice is a soft caress. His gaze into my eyes is so intense that I swear he sees straight into my soul.
βYes.β Warmth flushes my cheeks. Iβ¦ βShe thought about you all the time.β
The candlelight flickers a soft glow along his jawline, along his lips. βI hated losing her.β His voice is a low growl. βI hadnβt realized just how attached Iβd gotten.β He reaches and moves a strand of wet hair out of my face. βHow dangerously addictive she could be.
β
β
Susan Ee (World After (Penryn & the End of Days, #2))
β
...remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
You have played,
(I think)
And broke the toys you were fondest of,
And are a little tired now;
Tired of things that break, andβ
Just tired.
So am I.
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
Only by you my heart always moves.
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
let it go -- the
smashed word broken
open vow or
the oath cracked length
wise -- let it go it
was sworn to
go
let them go -- the
truthful liars and
the false fair friends
and the boths and
neithers -- you must let them go they
were born
to go
let all go -- the
big small middling
tall bigger really
the biggest and all
things -- let all go
dear
so comes love
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
may i feel said he
(i'll squeal said she
just once said he)
it's fun said she
(may i touch said he
how much said she
a lot said he)
why not said she
(let's go said he
not too far said she
what's too far said he
where you are said she)
may i stay said he
(which way said she
like this said he
if you kiss said she
may i move said he
is it love said she)
if you're willing said he
(but you're killing said she
but it's life said he
but your wife said she
now said he)
ow said she
(tiptop said he
don't stop said she
oh no said he)
go slow said she
(cccome?said he
ummm said she)
you're divine!said he
(you are Mine said she)
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
when man determined to destroy
himself he picked the was
of shall and finding only why
smashed it into because
β
β
E.E. Cummings (100 Selected Poems)
β
l(a
le
af
fa
ll
s)o
ne
li
ne
ss
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
I have better things to do.β
βLike what?β
He opens one eye and looks at me. βLike convince a stubborn girl to admit sheβs madly in love with me.
β
β
Susan Ee (End of Days (Penryn & the End of Days, #3))
β
Life is not a paragraph, and death is no parenthesis.
(This is a reference to an E.E. Cummings poem within the author's work)
β
β
Paula Hawkins (The Girl on the Train)
β
may I be I is the only prayer--not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong.
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
who knows if the moon's
a balloon,coming out of a keen city
in the sky--filled with pretty people?
( and if you and I should
get into it,if they
should take me and take you into their balloon,
why then
we'd go up higher with all the pretty people
than houses and steeples and clouds:
go sailing
away and away sailing into a keen
city which nobody's ever visited,where
always
it's
Spring)and everyone's
in love and flowers pick themselves
β
β
E.E. Cummings (Collected Poems)
β
You," he says, with a dirty look, βdonβt deserve salvation.β
"As if you could give it to me,β I croak. βWhy would I want to go to Heaven anyway when itβs crammed full of murderers and kidnappers like you and your buddies?β
βWho says I belong in Heaven?
β
β
Susan Ee (Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1))
β
Are you really an archangel?β I whisper.
He gives me a cocky grin. βImpressed?β
βNo,β I lie. βBut I have some complaints Iβd like to file about your personnel.β
βTalk to middle management.β
I follow him out the door, giving him my
death-by-glare expression.
β
β
Susan Ee (Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1))
β
He glares at me as if he already hates it. βWhat is it?β I consider lying but whatβs the point? I clear my throat. βPooky Bear."
Heβs silent for so long Iβm beginning to think he didnβt hear me when he finally says, βPooky. Bear.β βIt was just a little joke. I didnβt know.β
βIβve mentioned that names have power, right? Do you realize that when she fights battles, sheβs going to have to announce herself to the opposing sword? Sheβll be forced to say something ridiculous like, βI am Pooky Bear, from an ancient line of archangel swords.β Or, βBow down to me, Pooky Bear, who has only two other equals in all the worlds.βββ He shakes his head. βHow is she going to get any respect?
β
β
Susan Ee (World After (Penryn & the End of Days, #2))
β
If
"If freckles were lovely, and day was night,
And measles were nice and a lie warn't a lie,
Life would be delight,--
But things couldn't go right
For in such a sad plight
I wouldn't be I.
If earth was heaven and now was hence,
And past was present, and false was true,
There might be some sense
But I'd be in suspense
For on such a pretense
You wouldn't be you.
If fear was plucky, and globes were square,
And dirt was cleanly and tears were glee
Things would seem fair,--
Yet they'd all despair,
For if here was there
We wouldn't be we.
β
β
E.E. Cummings
β
β"Was that your plan all along? Show me where to go, then convince me there's nothing I can do to save my sister?"
"Actually, my plan all along was to become a rockstar, travel the world collecting fan girls, and then getting really fat and spending the rest of my life playing video games while the girls kept comin', thinking I look good as I did in my music videos." He shrugs as if to say, 'who knew the world would turn out so different?
β
β
Susan Ee (Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1))
β
Iβm revoking your warrior status,β he says as he watches Clara and her family.
βI had warrior status?β
βFor about thirty seconds.β
βWhat heinous crime did I commit to lose my exalted status?β
βA true warrior would have retrieved her sword first before doing personal business.β
βIβm all about personal business. Every battle I have is personal.β
βHmm. Good answer. Maybe youβll eventually regain your status.β
βI wonβt hold my breath.
β
β
Susan Ee (World After (Penryn & the End of Days, #2))
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Do you love me, Westley? Is that it?β
He couldnβt believe it. βDo I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches. If your love wereββ
βI donβt understand the first one yet,β Buttercup interrupted. She was starting to get very excited now. βLet me get this straight. Are you saying my love is the size of a grain of sand and yours is this other thing? Images just confuse me soβis this universal business of yours bigger than my sand? Help me, Westley. I have the feeling weβre on the verge of something just terribly important.β
βI have stayed these years in my hovel because of you. I have taught myself languages because of you. I have made my body strong because I thought you might be pleased by a strong body. I have lived my life with only the prayer that some sudden dawn you might glance in my direction. I have not known a moment in years when the sight of you did not send my heart careening against my rib cage. I have not known a night when your visage did not accompany me to sleep. There has not been a morning when you did not flutter behind my waking eyelidsβ¦.Is any of this getting through to you, Buttercup, or do you want me to go on for a while?β
βNever stop.β
βThere has not beenββ
βIf youβre teasing me, Westley, Iβm just going to kill you.β
βHow can you even dream I might be teasing?β
βWell, you havenβt once said you loved me.β
βThatβs all you need? Easy. I love you. Okay? Want it louder? I love you. Spell it out, should I? I ell-oh-vee-ee why-oh-you. Want it backward? You love I.β
βYou are teasing now; arenβt you?β
βA little maybe; Iβve been saying it so long to you, you just wouldnβt listen. Every time you said βFarm boy do thisβ you thought I was answering βAs you wishβ but thatβs only because you were hearing wrong. βI love youβ was what it was, but you never heard, and you never heard.
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William Goldman (The Princess Bride)