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“Sounds, small unintelligible sounds, came from her mouth as she arched herself towards him. But it was a language he understood completely, and in this woman beneath him, with his belly against hers, deep inside her, Robert Kincaid’s long search came to an end.
And he knew finally the meaning of all the small footprints on all the deserted beaches he had ever walked, of all the secret cargos carried by ships that had never sailed, of all the curtained faces that had watched him pass down winding streets to twilight cities. And, like a great hunter of old who has traveled distant miles and now sees the light of his home campfires, his loneliness dissolved. At last. At last. He had come so far–so far. And he lay upon her, perfectly formed and unalterably complete in his love for her. At last.”
– Robert James Waller
Mr. Waller is the author of Bridges of Madison County, which sold over 50,000,000 copies to become one of the most successful books of the 20th Century. Mr. Waller has also written numerous other books, many of which sold several thousands of copies.
