"your love is different than mine. what i mean is, when you close your eyes, for that moment, the center of the universe comes to reside within you. and you become a small figure within that vastness, which spreads without limit behind you, and continues to expand at tremendous speed, to engulf all of my past, even before i was born, and every word i've ever written, and each view i've seen, and all the constellations, and the darkness of outer space that surrounds the small blue ball that is earth. then, when you open your eyes, all that disappears."
from Banana Yoshimoto's 'Helix'
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