"I promised to tell you how one
falls in love."
The rest is history. Simply one of the most intoxicating, haunting, and beautiful romance novels ever to have been written. Its poetic grace lifts off the pages and drowns the heart in nostalgic torture. And a very timely read for me, personally. Falling in love is never easy. The Cave of Swimmers is one of greatest chapters I've ever read. The end of it poses one of my newest favorite quotes:
"We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes
we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of
wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as
caves. I wish for all this to be marked on my body when I am dead. I believe in
such cartography- to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map
like the names of rich men and women on buildings."
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