I wanted to dream of you so I stole ancient provisions from the dark. One cake was 300 years old. When I put it under my pillow I saw fireworks and tasted truffles, so I left a note for the other women. This is the one; this slice is right.
"I’m extremely happy with her, and part of it has to do with the fact that she is at once completely familiar to me, so that I can be myself and she knows me very well and I trust her completely, but at the same time she is also a complete mystery to me in some ways. And there are times when we are lying in bed and I look over and sort of have a start. Because I realize here is this other person who is separate and different and has different memories and backgrounds and thoughts and feelings. It’s that tension between familiarity and mystery that makes for something strong, because, even as you build a life of trust and comfort and mutual support, you retain some sense of surprise or wonder about the other person."
—Barack Obama, discussing his marriage to Michelle, 1996 "I love you so much I’ll never be able to tell you; I’m frightened to tell you. I can always feel your heart. Dance tunes are always right: I love you body and soul: —and I suppose body means that I want to touch you and be in bed with you, and i suppose soul means that i can hear you and see you and love you in every single, single thing in the whole world asleep or awake"
- Dylan Thomas He made me feel like a glass of champagne. My desire for him moved in and out of truth.
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