Simon Van Booy - The Secret Lives of People in Love (2007)

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I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.

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When small drops began to fall and darken the world in penny-shaped circles, no one around him scurried for cover. For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.

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I suppose the key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth and hope that at any moment we can all be reborn.

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We touched with a softness that pushed through the skin into memory, like arms plunged into a river - we could feel the weight of each other's stones.

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I want to do things for people they will never forget. Maybe that's the best thing I can do in life.

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If there is such a thing as marriage, it takes place long before the ceremony; in a car on the way to the airport; or as a gray bedrooms fills with dawn, one lover watching the other; or as two strangers stand together in the rain with no bus in sight, arms weighed down with shopping bags. You don't know then. But later you realize - that was the moment.

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It's tempting to imagine how we could hurt someone close, because it reminds us how fiercely we love them.

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I think we keep these moments of rejection and acceptance very close. I think we carry them always, like cracked shells from which a part of us once hatched.

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For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.

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I think living with the absence of someone we love is like living in front of a mountain from which a person - a speck in the distance, on some distance ridge - is perpetually waving.

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