I opened myself to you only to be skinned alive. The more vulnerable I became, the faster and more deft your knife. Knowing what was happening, still I stayed and let you carve more. That's how much I loved you. That's how much.
Rabih Alameddine (2002). “I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters”, p.116, W. W. Norton & Company
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