As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

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I fell in love with this man as he read. I grew to love the way he read, the way he would stop to re-read a particularly lovely passage. The way he looked up from his book and smiled at me with the most genuine expression on his face.

Source: The Fault In Our Stars

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