Joella

"Nothing is ever as beautiful as the first isolated moments with
someone who might be able to love you - with someone you
yourself might be able to love. There is nothing as silent as these
minutes, nothing so saturated with sweet anticipation. It is for
these few minutes that we love, not for the many that follow.
Never again, they realize, would anything so beautiful ever
happen to them. They might be happier, more impassioned, too,
and infinitely satiated with their own bodies and with each
other's. But never again would it be so beautiful."

- Stig Dagerman, A Moth to a Flame