Your eyes were too intense to stare into for long.
Lucy Christopher
You said you knew the perfect place to run to. A place that was empty of people, and buildings, and far, far away. A place covered in blood-red earth and sleeping life. A place longing to come alive again. It's a place for disappearing, you'd said, a place for getting lost.. And for getting found.I'll take you there, you'd said. And I could say that I agreed.
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You told me once of the plants that lie dormant through the drought, that wait, half-dead, deep in the earth. The plants that wait for the rain. You said they'd wait for years, if they had to; that they'd almost kill themselves before they grew again. But as soon as those first drops of water fall, those plants begin to stretch and spread their roots. They travel up through the soil and sand to reach the surface. There's a chance for them again.
inspirational
I mean, that star over there is blinking at me madly now, but for how long? An hour or two, or for the next million years? And how long will we sit here like this? Just another moment, or the rest of our lives? You know which one I'd prefer..
romance wondering
And it's hard to hate someone once you understand them.
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Far, far away something made a single ghostly howl, like a banshee in the dark.
nature
dark
I remember the lights turning into blurs of blazing fire. I remember the air-conditioning chilling my arms. The smell of coffee smudging into the smell of eucalyptus.
If there'd been an astronaut on the moon right then, I'm sure I could have seen him. Perhaps he could have looked down and seen me too.. The only one who could.
moon
You smiled then, and your whole face changed with it. It kind of lit up, like there were sunbeams coming from inside you.
smile
I remember that feeling of skin. It'sstrange to remember touch more than thought. But my fingersstill tingle with it.
attraction touch
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