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sunlight pours into his Cairo room topic/heartbreak

The minute she turns away from him in the lobby of Groppi’s bar after he greets her, he is insane. He knows the only way he can accept losing her is if he can continue to hold her or be held by her. If they can somehow nurse each other out of this. Not with a wall.

Sunlight pours into his Cairo …

—p.156 The English Patient Katharine (147) by Michael Ondaatje
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that night I fell in love with a voice topic/love

The desert fire was between us. The Cliftons, Madox, Bell and myself. If a man leaned back a few inches he would disappear into darkness. Katharine Clifton began to recite something, and my head was no longer in the halo of the camp’s twig fire.

There was classical blood in her face. Her parents…

—p.143 South Cairo 1930–1938 (131) by Michael Ondaatje
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talkers seduce project/stunt-story

‘Older than Hana. Could you fall in love with her if she wasn’t smarter than you? I mean, she may not be smarter than you. But isn’t it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? Think now. She can be obsessed by the Englishman because he knows more. We’re in a h…

—p.120 Sometime a Fire (67) by Michael Ondaatje
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talkers seduce project/stunt-story

‘Older than Hana. Could you fall in love with her if she wasn’t smarter than you? I mean, she may not be smarter than you. But isn’t it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? Think now. She can be obsessed by the Englishman because he knows more. We’re in a h…

—p.120 Sometime a Fire (67) by Michael Ondaatje
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shut the door on grief on regret on remorse topic/grief

I don’t know why I even brought this up. Magpies flash now blue, green against the snow. They have a similar bossy shriek. Of course I could get a book or call somebody and find out about the nesting habits of crows. But what bothers me is that I only accidentally noticed them. What else have I mis…

—p.389 A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories Homing (388) by Lucia Berlin