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"Love has got complicated, tied up with promises, bruised with plans, dogged with an ending that nobody wants -- when all love is, is what it always is -- that you look at me and want me and I don't turn away. If I want to say no, I will, but for the right reasons. If I want to say yes, I will, but for the right reasons. Leave the consequences. Leave the finale. Leave the grand statements. This simplicity of feeling should not be taxed."


From POWERBOOK by Jeanette Winterson