Monday, August 04, 2008
Words she longs to hear...
The more she reads Austen and watches Italian films with subtitles, the ones with handsome men who move as smoothly as they talk, the more she wants to hear those words spoken to her. Words that are only heard in movies or read in 19th century literature. She wants to be "incandescently" happy in someone’s arms. She wants to be called "exquisite". But she fears no one uses such words anymore, and the ones who do are trapped behind her television screen or in the pages of the novels she keeps on her nightstand.
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your words are both incandescent and exquisite. i love reading them. thank you for sharing.
She wants to be "incandescently" happy in someone’s arms. She wants to be called "exquisite".
oh it'll happen. one day when you're being held closely. whispered words will caress your ear. words that sound like they are directly from a book or a foreign film. you'll close your eyes and just know.
i think anonymous and a random person are ready to give that role a try. ;)
is prettiful one of the words that you long to hear?
I challenge you to a wrestling match.
From recent movies, all I can think of are "You make me want to be a better man" and "...you complete me... Shut up, you had me at hello."
While they might work in AS GOOD AS IT GETS and JERRY MAGUIRE, they're not quite exquisite, are they? And they sound a little cliche for real life...
Aww, I feel the same way! But you probably already knew that, because I think we've had that conversation before :) Although you stated it much more eloquently than I could!
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