This is an excerpt of Graham Greene's novel "The End of the Affair." Great writer, great book, great movie. Just thought this little piece was really inspiring and truly captures what it feels like when you can't really express your feelings to the one you love...
June 12, 1944
Sometimes I get so tired of trying to convince him that I love him and shall love him for ever. I know he is afraid of that desert which would be around him if our love were to end, but he can't realise that I feel exactly the same. What he says aloud, I say to myself silently and write it here. What can one build in the desert? Sometimes after a day when we have made love many times, I wonder whether it isn't possible to come to an end of sex, and I know that he is wondering too and is afraid of that point where the desert begins. What do we do in the desert if we lose each other? How does one go on living after that?
The excrutiating agony of love....--Apples Signing Off
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“After a while, I’d do nothing but go day by day without you. Sometimes I’d remember something you said, and have another one-way conversation. I’d walk around secretly talking to you, wondering where you were and what you were doing. I’d tell myself that wherever you’d gone I wanted you to be happy.”-If I Vanished by Stuart Dybek
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- Annie Apples
- I like to dance in my underwear around my living room. With the window blinds closed. Listening to good music and letting the words wash over me. Singing at the top of my lungs when I'm aimlessly driving. Being the rock star that's hidden in all of us.
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