【讀】These Violent Delights | 黑暗殘暴的迷戀

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這一段我真的很喜歡，關於「愛」的討論。
“[…] what we call ‘love’ is actually letting your identity fill in around the shape of the other person, you love someone by defining yourself against them. It says loss hurts because there’s nothing holding that part of you in place anymore, but your outline still holds, and it keeps holding. The thing you shape yourself into by loving them. you never stop being that.” (Part I, 8)

“Paul was almost relieved to feel the sting. It meant Julian saw every weakness in him, and still thought he was worth the effort of hurting.” (Part I, 4)

“You just keep pushing me into the deep end and then acting like I’m drowning to spite you.” (Part II, 6)

“Once he knew the shape of someone else’s pain, he could break off a piece of it, claim it as his own, keep it as a memento under glass, and know they’d be grateful to him for taking it away.” (Part III, 6)

“All they were, all they had ever been was a pair of sunflowers who each believe the other is the sun.” (Part IV, 6)

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