She was darkness and he was darkness and there had never been anything before this time, only darkness and his lips upon her. She tried to speak and his mouth was over hers again. Suddenly she had a wild thrill such as she had never known; joy, fear, madness, excitement, surrender to arms that were too strong, lips too bruising, fate that moved too fast. Margaret Mitchell
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"She was darkness and he was darkness and there had never been anything before this time, only darkness and his lips upon her. She tried to speak and his mouth was over hers again. Suddenly she had a wild thrill such as she had never known; joy, fear, madness, excitement, surrender to arms that were too strong, lips too bruising, fate that moved too fast." The story of the young girl who falls in love with a stranger is a common tale within the pages of literature. However, few stories can take you through a journey similar to what this story does.

"She was darkness and he was darkness and there had never been anything before this time, only darkness and his lips upon her." The story takes you through the emotions of the young girl as she falls in love with the man she has never met before. "Joy,""fear,""excitement,""surrender,""fate,""madness,""surrender to arms that are too strong," "surrender lips that are too bruising," "surrender fate that moves too fast." Who is he? Where is he from? What will become of them? The language and tone of the story is so beautiful, bringing me back to my high school days where we would gather around a campfire and read short stories. The parts where the girl talks about how her father would always tell her to stay away from strangers brought back all those memories.

The way the author describes their first kiss is so raw and real it made my heart race. Even though I have read other stories like this one I find myself getting lost in these writings again and again because they seem so simple yet so complicated at times.

Source: Gone With The Wind

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