May 16 2010
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“ Happiness? Happiness is making love because of love. It’s when the heart threatens to explode because it’s beating, when an incomparable look lingers on your mouth, when a hand leaves a bit of its sweat in the hollow your left knee. It’s the saliva of the beloved that flows down your throat, sweet as sugar and transparent. It’s your neck stretching out, letting go of its knots and fatigue, becoming endless because of a tongue running up and down its full length. It’s your earlobe pulsating like your lower belly. It’s your back becoming delirious and inventing sounds and shivers to say I love you. It’s the raised leg, consenting, the panties falling down like a leaf, useless and bothersome. It’s a hand penetrating the forest of hair, awakening the roots of the head and generously watering them with its tenderness. It’s the terror of having to open up and the incredible power of giving yourself when everything in the world is a reason to weep.
— The Almond by Nedjma