Love Stories: Tag – Love
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Book Excerpts
The Curse of the Blood Diamond Part 2 Chapter 12
“You’re looking well, dear,” Frances commented when Esson opened the cottage door. “You spend so much time holed away here, we hardly know what you look like anymore.”
“Forgive me for not having been more sociable. I am keeping myself busy while Hector is away.”
Hector and Royston had taken a ten-day trip into the interior on “men’s business”. Esson knew their trips had something to do with ivory purchases and big game hunting but, when she asked Hector, he merely replied: “A bit of fishing, a bit of hunting, terribly boring for you, my dear.”
Love Classics
Pride and Prejudice Chapter 33
More than once did Elizabeth, in her ramble within the park, unexpectedly meet Mr. Darcy. She felt all the perverseness of the mischance that should bring him where no one else was brought, and, to prevent its ever happening again, took care to inform him at first that it was a favourite haunt of hers. How it could occur a second time, therefore, was very odd! Yet it did, and even a third. It seemed like wilful ill-nature, or a voluntary penance, for on these occasions it was not merely a few formal inquiries and an awkward pause and then away, but he actually thought it necessary to turn back and walk with her
Short Stories
Goodbye
I’m sure even Shah Jahan wouldn’t have felt as excited, had Mumtaz risen from the dead, as I was when I saw him. Imagine meeting him after all these years at the Taj Mahal, symbol of eternal love. For a moment my heart raced like a teenager’s, faster than the car I drive on the LA freeway. I felt as though I were walking on a cloud like in the old hindi movies, where the girl glides across the heavens in a white dress.
Short Stories
A Distant Love
Godzilla stood, as always - alone, aloof, commanding. Even the two old ladies in front of me were giving him the eye. I couldn’t blame them. He hadn’t changed that much since school except now he wore a long, black leather coat instead of a school blazer and had swapped his school shirt and tie for a black polo neck. His jeans were black too (almost the colour of his hair), making him look even taller than he really was. One thing had changed since school: unbelievably, he looked even more gorgeous – and he knew it!