He was like a child with haemophilia: every contact drew blood.
Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends.
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You needn't be so scared. Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each other.
If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience.
He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things were taken out of one's hands altogether by death.