![]() Then, we met, and everything changed, the cynic has become the converted the sceptic, an ardent zealot. ![]() Touch device users, explore by touch or with swipe gestures. When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. See more ideas about teaser, book teaser, downer. "Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates - poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. 'Down and Counting' is a 1986 single by Jamaican-born singer/actress, Claudja Barry. Quotes and Teasers for The Counting-Downers. Compton Imagine if we could see how long everyone around us had left to live. ![]() ![]() "What is it which makes a man and a woman know that they, of all other men and women in the world, belong to each other? Is it no more than chance and meeting? no more than being alive together in the world at the same time? Is it only a curve of the throat, a line of the chin, the way the eyes are set, a way of speaking? Or is it something deeper and stranger, something beyond meeting, something beyond chance and fortune? Are there others, in other times of the world, whom we should have loved, who would have loved us? Is there, perhaps, one soul among all others - among all who have lived, the endless generations, from world's end to world's end - who must love us or die? And whom we must love, in turn - whom we must seek all our lives long, headlong and homesick - until the end?" Compton (Goodreads Author) 4.29 Rating details 104 ratings 61 reviews The stunningly poignant and life-affirming debut novel by A.J. ![]()
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