If you wear black, then kindly, irritating strangers will touch your arm consolingly and inform you that the world keeps on turning. They're right. It does. However much you beg it to stop. It turns and lets grenadine spill over the horizon, sends hard bars of gold through my window and I wake up and feel happy for three seconds and then I remember. It turns and tips people out of their beds and into their cars, their offices, an avalanche of tiny men and women tumbling through life.. All trying not to think about what's waiting at the bottom. Sometimes it turns and sends us reeling into each other's arms. We cling tight, excited and laughing, strangers thrown together on a moving funhouse floor. Intoxicated by the motion we forget all the risks. And then the world turns.. And somebody falls off.. And oh God it's such a long way down. Numb with shock, we can only stand and watch as they fall away from us, gradually getting smaller.. Receding in our memories until they're no longer visible. We gather in cemeteries, tense and silent as if for listening for the impact; the splash of a pebble dropped into a dark well, trying to measure its depth. Trying to measure how far we have to fall. No impact comes; no splash. The moment passes. The world turns and we turn away, getting on with our lives.. Wrapping ourselves in comforting banalities to keep us warm against the cold." Time's a great healer."" At least it was quick."" The world keeps turning." Oh Alec–Alec's dead.Alan Moore
About This Quote
It takes time to know a person or a couple. The first date is fun but it’s not going to last forever. The second date is going to be a little more serious and you have to start to trust them a little more. I believe that the third date is the one that matters the most and that it’s a great night for a proposal.
This is when you can tell them how much you love them and how much you want to spend the rest of your life with them. This is also the perfect time to ask her/him what he/she really thinks about you and what he/she really wants from their life as well as what they think about having children. It’s such an authentic moment during which they can say anything and everything without other people judging them because it’s only the two of you together.
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