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“She talked a lot when she was nervous,” he said, “and it took her five months to kiss me back.”

“One day I was talking about something, about politics or the news perhaps, and she kisses me, out of the blue; she presses her lips up against mine and she doesn’t move.”

“And I had to have her then,” he said, “while her hands were quivering like a sparrow, and she looked at me like she couldn’t quite catch her breath.”

“I had to have her tawny brown eyes and ridiculously smudged eyeliner and shaky knees. I had to have her anxious ramblings and the way she covered her eyes when she was embarrassed. I had to have all of it.”

“Funny,” he said, “how one kiss could have brought all that out. I wanted everything in that moment; I could have had anything, and I loved her for it.”

S.Z. // Excerpt from a book I’ll never write #127 // I think this was the way we loved (via blossomfully)
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