The heart may freeze or it can burn. The pain will ease and I can learn. There is no future there is no past. I live this moment as my last.

Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between them the depth of field minimal their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book.

Nobody really knows herExcept the chosen fewHer secrets are kept hiddenBehind that sun-kissed hue.If I reach out to touch herShell just run awayMy Forever and AlwaysWill have to wait another day.

Love you Xavier said just before he drifted back to sleep.Love you more I said playfully.Not a chance Xavier said fully awake now. Im bigger I can contain more love.Im smaller therefore my love particles are more compressed which means I can fit more in.Xavier laughed. That argument makes no sense. Overruled.Im just basing it on how much I miss you when youre not around I countered.How can you possibly know how much I miss you he said. Have you got some sort of built-in miss-o-meter that can give us a readingIm a girl of course I have a built-in miss-o-meter.

With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it that one can be in love with several people at the same time feel the same sorrow with each and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier he said to himself in a flash of anger My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.

To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.

He looks at one of the pictures for a long time. Then he looks at me. Ill keep you up here. He taps his temple. Where you cant get lost.

I could still feel the ghost of him hovering in the quiet dark recess of my heart. It was as if he was just waiting for me to be lonely or to let my guard down so that he could surface and fill my mind again with thoughts of him.

Id sleep outside naked in the blizzardfor you.

A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.