YOU CAN CHECK ANY CHINESE DICTIONARY, there’s no word for romance. We say ‘Lo Man’, copying the English pronunciation. What the fuck use was a word like romance to me anyway? There wasn’t much of it about in China, and Beijing was the least romantic place in the whole universe. ‘Eat first, talk later,’ as [...]
Entries Tagged as 'love'
Chinese Romance – “Twenty fragments of a ravenous youth” – Xiaolu Guo
January 19th, 2012 · No Comments · Chinese, Love, Quotes
Tags:China·love·Practicality·Romance
Break Ups – “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” – Mohsin Hamid
December 12th, 2011 · No Comments · Love, Pakistan
If you have ever, sir, been through at love, you will perhaps understand what I experienced. There is in such situations usually a moment of passion during which the unthinkable is said; this is followed by a sense of euphoria at finally being liberated; the world seems fresh, as if seen for the first time; [...]
Tags:break ups·love·relationships
Teen Romance in the Dark – “Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea” – Barbara Demick
September 18th, 2011 · No Comments · History, Love, North Korea, Totalitarianism
The dark has advantages of its own. Especially if you are a teenager dating somebody you can’t be seen with. When adults go to bed, sometimes as early as 7:00pm in winter, it is easy enough to slip out of the house. The darkness confers measures of privacy and freedom as hard to come by [...]
Isn’t it Pretty to Think So – “The Sun Also Rises” – Ernest Hemingway
September 8th, 2011 · No Comments · Love
“Oh, Jake,” Brett said, “we could have had such a damned good time together.” Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly pressing Brett against me. “Yes,” I said. “Isn’t it pretty to think so?”
Tags:love·unrequited love
Fun to Kiss – “Tender is the Night” – F Scott Fitzgerald
August 15th, 2011 · No Comments · Literature, Love, Prose, Writing
The voice fell low, sank into her breast and stretched the tight bodice over her heart as she came up close. He felt the young lips, her body sighing in relief against the arm growing stronger to hold her. There were now no more plans than if Dick had arbitrarily made some indissoluble mixture, with [...]
