It Might Have Looked Like That

'I wish at any cost to be alone,' said the statue with the eternal look. Wind, wind that cools my burning cheeks. And the terrible battle began.
-Giorgio de Chirico
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Love has a right to be spoken. And you have a right to know that somebody loves you. That somebody has loved you, and could love you. We all need to know that. Maybe it’s what we need most. So I wanted to tell you. And because I was afraid you thought I’d kept away from you because I didn’t love you, or care about you, you know. It might have looked like that. But it wasn’t that.
-A Fisherman of the Inland Sea by Ursula K. Le Guin
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What Ever Happened by: The Strokes