They meet in the girls' bathroom. The last time they were forced to meet in a place like this, they took separate, isolated stalls. Now they share one. They hold each other in the tight space, making no excuses for it. There's no time left in their lives for games, or for awkwardness, or for pretending they don't care about each others, and so they kiss as if they've done it forever. As if it is as crucial as the need for oxygen.
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Mean nothing more than meow to an animal THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS If they did it like they did it in '96 or whenever, just picking it from one meet, what if someo... CARLY PATTERSON Men are like that sometimes - if they meet someone and fall in love, it's real, no matter how fast i... NICHOLAS SPARKS Now they have a riddle. - Criminal Minds DEYTH BANGER And what do they want!? DEYTH BANGER We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, m... THOMAS MERTON And, each in his separate star, / Shall draw the Thing as he sees it for the God of things as they a... RUDYARD KIPLING They are making investments now so they need our advice as to how to go about doing it. So an agreem... DAVID AARON The girls really gelled as a team and pushed each other this past week. Today at the meet they chall... JENNIFER EVANS We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, m... THOMAS MERTON Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not. When two bodies meet, it... PAULO COELHO History teachers help children climb mountains. JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned to. There w... MIRANDA JULY It can't last forever. Others have thought such things, in bad times before this, and they were alwa... MARGARET ATWOOD How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like for... TONI MORRISON But this too is true: stories can save us. TIM O'BRIEN They both looked into each other's eyes for one last time and turned their back on each other and st... AKSHAY VASU And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall
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And no one shall work for m... RUDYARD KIPLING They had food fights all the time, they were three young guys in a van, for the first time.going acr... SHAWN ASHMORE They make friends, they laugh, they share They stay in touch, they care. CHRISTINA ENGELA Only if the dragon and the eagle turn their sights from each other and make room for each other in t... SAMUEL BERGER What's the difference between people who see and seek gaps and those that see and seek bridges? The ... RICHIE NORTON The girls worked really hard for this and now they're enjoying the fruits of their labor. They were ... GREG SCHEPANSKI They Learn to speak... and when they were at level "AVERAGE", they started making the rules and star... DEYTH BANGER I was a victim of violence... No reason for vileonce just few sucirity guards came... we were 3... t... DEYTH BANGER At the end of the night they all seemed so happy. Maybe it was just because they hadn't seen each ot... DITO MONTIEL They loved each other enough that they wanted the other one to play as well as they could, then they... GENE BESS One of the things people forget about this is it builds self confidence. Watch these children when t... EDDIE LEE The deadline is set and they think I am their pet. SANTOSH KALWAR I am still waiting for the day that they say, 'Time's up, Blanco. Back to your shift at Walm... BENNY BLANCO It is sort of like a searching process. By the time they graduate, they should have developed a syst... EUGENE DIAL Only a psychopath would ever think of doing these things, only a psychopath would dream of abusing o... ARUN D. ELLIS When it gets down to it, our players are not going to win for me, our coaches, or our community. The... MARK REEVE She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING They slept profoundly, desperately, greedily, as though for the last time, as though they had been c... HERMANN HESSE Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love fo... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love ... SOREN KIERKEGAARD If it does shed light on the idea that there's real love involved ... it's great. When two people lo... JAKE GYLLENHAAL Physicians of the Utmost Fame Were called at once; but when they came they murmured as they took the... HILAIRE BELLOC The world is passing through troubling times. The young people of today think of nothing but themsel... PETER THE HERMIT But it is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once... THOMAS PYNCHON I am for the people of the whole nation doing just as they please in all matter which concern the wh... ABRAHAM LINCOLN I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each... ABBIE CORNISH It was incredibly emotional. It was hard for them to take care of business. I'm proud of them for st... DANA BRUTON all human work (especially excellent work), done by all people, as a channel of God’s love for his... TIMOTHY J. KELLER The kids really stepped up. They played as one. All week long in practice we've been talking about p... LISA MANDEVILLE HOW ANGELS SLEEP. Unsoundly. They toss and turn, trying to understand the mystery of the living. The... NICOLE KRAUSS These facilities were relatively rustic even for this area of the world. Other inns at least had ind... ASHIM SHANKER …he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered. He wanted her to be a... TIM O'BRIEN They have to know they can ask for it if they want it or need it. People weren't being told about wh... LOIS KANTER Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw tw... JULES VERNE They all had stories. They had mothers or fathers, sisters or lovers. They weren't alone in the worl... NAOMI NOVIK Even if our loved ones have assured us that they will be busy at work, even if they told us they hat... ALAIN DE BOTTON By the end of the time, they come together as a whole community, they take care of each other. JOY CHRISTENSON That's why actors can take on other lives, because I think basically, at the bottom of everything, t... ANJELICA HUSTON They were idiots for not getting rid of me or him, every single week. It was so obvious. They though... AMBER BRKICH I can not think for others or without others,nor can others think for me. Even if the people's think... PAULO FREIRE It is a well-known fact that English people never know anything. They only think. The only exception... ANGELA KISS They are always the problem. There is no evil in this world you cannot blame on them. The world will... JAMES ROZOFF Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more cl... LEONARDO DA VINCI People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington ... VALERIE JARRETT These two, and the U.S. team, are in such a good space right now. They are strictly tunnel vision. N... DEBBIE ARMSTRONG No matter how intimate of a relationship or closeness you have with another person, you will never k... THEE AMAZING GRACE I like America anyway. In Japan we are much more formal. If two friends are separated for a long tim... SESSUE HAYAKAWA They should be measured on it and if they don't meet the standard, they get docked for it. GEORGE VOINOVICH They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and ... NICHOLAS SPARKS They set about making people so unhappy and isolated and when they crawl into a hole and pull it in ... CHRISTINA ENGELA That is what was special to me, ... to see them come together as a team. They worked and cheered and... JACK NICKLAUS It's one of those things that if we came in as well as we've been playing and they beat us, they wou... BOB HOWRY Americans see history as a straight line and themselves standing at the cutting edge of it as repres... SOURCE UNKNOWN Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams... OG MANDINO If they place their child in unregulated care, they're not inspected, not regulated, they don't foll... ALMA GARCIA These were guys who had been in situations where their lives had been in peril, so this was a game t... BOB EASON I thought my girls were down a little bit. They weren't as intense as they had been in the past two ... BRIAN MUSTY They don't need it. Most of the time they ask for it because at one point in time, it was a common t... JAY FOLEY The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself, their buttocks arro... FAY WELDON I closed my eyes and listened carefully for the descendants of Sputnik, even now circling the earth,... HARUKI MURAKAMI I've had shows as a painter, as a photographer, I've done shows as a sculptor. I've done... NORMAN REEDUS Usually, children spend more time in the garden than anybody else. It is where they learn about the ... CAROL WILLIAMS The first of the boomers turn 60 this year. They are about to retire, and they have been spending as... DAVID ROSENBERG No one had ever told them they might need each other one day, an for some reason, they hadn't figure... SUSAN WIGGS The men and women who make up a plane's crew put their lives in jeopardy each time they fly. It&... DAVE REICHERT The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board. D.M. TIMNEY I find it odd- the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get ... C. JOYBELL C. You don't know me, dude," he says, not smiling this time. Gonzo examines his cards, prepping for his... LIBBA BRAY We would love to have the same success as the Spice Girls. They really made it. They paved the way f... CHERYL TWEEDY It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in pe... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have b... NICHOLAS SPARKS We're shooting for the Cape meet. They are really excited. It would be the first time the medley rel... BRIAN SLOAN Junkies have no interest in sex and they have no interest in other people except as suppliers of jun... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The following are not my words, i have seen it some where . But i wish to share it here for every on... ANOOP ASHOK What they can take credit for is the increased local interest in Burning Man. If people care about B... LARRY HARVEY I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when ... 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