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What makes life worth living are the saints I meet-they can be long-time friends or someone I meet on a street. They find a way to behave decently in an indecent society.
Like safety, that you've got everything covered; no stress, no fear.
Like I've been kidnapped of my senses.
A wonderful, terribly exciting disease.
A dizzy flamenco.
Friendly and warm.
Being hit on the head with a brick, and like a bowl of hearty soup.
Jumping on the seats of a deserted carriage on a London-bound train from Canterbury in 1989.
The love and the light in that book astounds me.
Love of family is something that is renewed in me every time I see them.
"The love you take is equal to the love you make" – Lennon/McCartney.
Learning to give up on perfection may be just about the most romantic move any of us could make.
Like you are seen.
All-embracing: when you find it, you don’t want to let it go.
When somebody runs you a bath and orders a takeaway after a long day.
When you are in love, it's a knowing. It's a knowing like you know your own age, and you know your own family's, like, last name. That's what love feels like.
Safe, strong and smiley.
Basking in the sun.
Right now, terrifying.
Like coming home in every sense.
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