Denis Johnson - Love Quotes

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Memories assailed him of how gently she had spoken, touched, and moved; of how she'd loved him fiercely despite his mistakes and obsessions and weaknesses. And the conviction descended on him that love like theirs couldn't possibly suffer any change.

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She had nothing in this world but her two hands and her crazy love for Jesus, who seemed, for his part, never to have heard of her.

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With each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me.

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I'd been staying at the Holiday Inn with my girlfriend, honestly the most beautiful woman I'd even known, for three days under a phony name, shooting heroin. We made love in the bed, ate steaks at the restaurant, shot up in the john, puked, cried, accused one another, begged of one another, forgave, promised, and carried one another to heaven.

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