Biology designed the dance. Terror timed it. Dictated the rhythm with …

Arundhati Roy
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Biology designed the dance. Terror timed it. Dictated the rhythm with which their bodies answered each other. As though they already knew that for each tremor of pleasure they would pay with an equal measure of pain. As though they knew that how far they went would be measured against how far they would be taken. ✨ FaceBook post byArundhati Roy from Feb 25, 2017
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