Her presence calmed me,
like a soothing hand in the centre of my chest bringing quiet to every muscle fibre and threaded sinew. Infatuation cannot last, and even love may be less certain that I’d once hoped, but this essential quiet, the stillness she brought to me, that lasted… “She’s like God to you: she inexplicably calms inexplicable fears.”
- Naomi Alderman, The Lessons
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