You and I have both known him, and I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say it’s an experience we shan’t ever forget. And even when he and I met in the middle of China, with his mind a blank and his past a mystery, there was still that queer core of attractiveness in him.

James Hilton, Lost Horizon: A Novel

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Consider also:

  1. “I regarded her as a woman, though at the same time she carried within her something that was beyond human.”
  2. “95% of our writing process is just trying to make each other laugh”
  3. “He tucks proudly, or sometimes not at all, and fuck you very much if you don’t like it.”
  4. “I don’t want to be high any more or again, and this sends me into a spiral of misery, life seems completely empty if this magic world is too painful for me. I want to die and I have infinite terror of the pain of every form of death. I see emptiness and hopelessness everywhere.”
  5. “Growing on another, perhaps harsher world, it has different form and features. But it is just as much a legitimate child of Nature as you are. You are displaying that childish human weakness of hating the different.”