existence warps too much. it sets us so we can only receive certain kinds of opposite numbers but in the abstract in essence any two human beings can find warmth together - Norman mailer, barbary shore   
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"She's sick," he said quietly. "But that doesn't erase what you felt. What you feel. The way her touch lives in your skin even now."
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"And I'm sorry... so damn sorry... that someone who was supposed to love you made it feel like violence."
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"You didn't think I was going to hurt you," he said "You thought I was...going to be like her."