“I appreciate the offer. I really do. But you can't put a price on independence, Blake.”
“I can't live without this Erica. Without you.”
“Then don't give up on us. Love me, damn it. Please baby. Let me love you.”
“Mine. You're mine. Just like this. Your body, your heart. Every part of you.”
“I think you have a fetish for office sex, sweetie, he whispered. You're my fetish, Blake”
“You're the only one Erica. There's never been anyone else.”
“Our story is the happiest one I know.”
“No one had made me feel this way, and no one ever would.”
“Do you feel me? It's me, baby. It'll always be me.”
“What kind of picnic did you have in mind”
“I love you, Blake. You're the only one. My only love.”
“What we were together had become so much more powerful, a force that took my breath away and made everything secondary.”
“I knew how to live with scars.”
“All I want you thinking about is being here with me, right now.”
“have you been up to?” She took a sip of her latte.”
“I'm drinking whiskey. Doesn't get much more real than this.”
“You won't give me access to the code , Erica. What the hell do you want me to do. It's not out of distrust, Blake. We need to be in control of the code for the long-term and you know that. Yet we all remain in the dark as to why we've been inexplicably and relentlessly attacked by this group.”
“Have you tried to reach out to them? No. I don't negotiate with terrorists.”
“Because if I have a wicked stepmother and two evil stepsisters, aren't I supposed to get a prince?”
“Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth. What remains in the bum or studiedly jocular desperation of one who is aware of the obscene Presence in the corner of the room and knows that the door is locked, that there aren’t any windows. And now the thing bears down on him. He feels a hand on his sleeve, smells a stinking breath, as the executioner’s assistant leans almost amorously toward him. “Your turn next, brother. Kindly step this way.” And in an instant his quiet terror is transmuted into a frenzy as violent as it is futile. There is no longer a man among his fellow men, no longer a rational being speaking articulately to other rational beings; there is only a lacerated animal, screaming and struggling in the trap. For in the end fear casts out even a man’s humanity. And fear, my good friends, fear is the very basis and foundation of modern life. Fear of the much touted technology which, while it raises out standard of living, increases the probability of our violently dying. Fear of the science which takes away the one hand even more than what it so profusely gives with the other. Fear of the demonstrably fatal institutions for while, in our suicidal loyalty, we are ready to kill and die. Fear of the Great Men whom we have raised, and by popular acclaim, to a power which they use, inevitably, to murder and enslave us. Fear of the war we don’t want yet do everything we can to bring about.”
“The days, I can forget, baby doll. But the nights…” His voice dropped to a hoarse growl, filled with intense feeling. “The nights will be torture knowing I won’t have this for eternity.”
“I wish that you will find love. It is the only thing in life that makes the pain of being alive bearable.”
“Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.”
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