“ Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude. ”
And so, in silence, we walked the surface of a dying world, but in the breast of one of us at least had been born that which is ever oldest, yet ever new.I loved Dejah Thoris. The touch of my arm upon her naked shoulder had spoken to me in words I would not mistake, and I knew that I had loved her since the first moment my eyes had met hers that first time in the plaza of the dead city of Korad.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.
I had aimed at Mars and was about to hit Venus unquestionably the all-time cosmic record for poor shots.
So glorious does love transfigure its object~Tarzan
