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In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence.

Michael Ondaatje
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Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.150, A&C Black
In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence.