刺猬也能拥抱吗？

我恨你把我丢掉

但也很对不起

是我让你手痛了

只能选择放开我

不行。刺猬不能拥抱。刺猬如果抱了人，再怎么小心也会把对方扎痛了。

刺蝟可以拥抱，它們总是渴望拥抱，只是在拥抱以前会有些膽怯——有些事情让它們害怕至此，自卑、无力，甚至干脆逃避——但拥抱是好事，它们十分体会那种温暖，在抱著某个人的时候，彷彿拥有全世界。 ⠀

- 文字出自宇 Kaoru 阿嚕

AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT - A LOVE STORY

"Remember I love you," I say. 

"I can never forget you for a moment," he says. "We're not two people but one. You're the raison d'être for my heartbeat, darling. I love you for e-ter-ni-ty." 

When I reach home several hours later I call him. I want to tell him I've arrived safely but he's forgotten I was there. 

"When are you coming?" he says. "Please come at the speed of light!" 

"I just got home from you," I say. 

"Oh really? Well, come at dawn then…" 

- The man who keeps falling in love with his wife

牵一只蜗牛去散步

Drawing by Fun @chillicrabkitchen

上帝给我一个任务，叫我牵一只蜗牛去散步。

我不能走得太快，蜗牛已经尽力爬，每次总是挪那么一点点。
我催它，我唬它，我责备它，蜗牛用抱歉的眼光看着我，彷佛说： “人家已经尽了全力！”
我拉它，我扯它，我甚至想踢它，蜗牛受了伤，它流着汗，喘着气，往前爬。
真奇怪，为什么上帝叫我牵一只蜗牛去散步？

“上帝啊！为什么？”天上一片安静。
“唉！也许上帝去抓蜗牛！”
好吧！松手吧！反正上帝不管了，我还管什么？
任蜗牛往前爬，我在后面生闷气。

咦？我闻到花香，原来这边有个花园。
我感到微风吹来，原来夜里的风这么温柔。
慢着！我听到鸟叫，我听到虫鸣，我看到满天的星斗多亮丽。
咦？以前怎么没有这些体会？

我忽然想起来，莫非是我弄错了！
原来上帝叫蜗牛牵我去散步。

作者: 张文亮

THE DANDELION GIRL - A LOVE STORY

Her eyes were blue, he saw when he came up to her - as blue as the sky that framed her slender, silhouette.  Her face was oval and young and soft and sweet.  It evoked a deja vu so poignant that he had to resist an impulse to reach out and touch her wind-kissed cheek.

He looked at her closely.  He had never seen such a guileless countenance. "And do you come her often?"

"Oh, yes.  This is my favorite space-time coordinate.  I stand here for hours sometimes and look and look and look.  Day before yesterday I saw a rabbit, and yesterday a deer, and today, you."

Next afternoon when he climbed the hill it was empty.  At first his disappointment numbed him, and then he thought, She's late, that's all.  She'll probably show up any minute.  And he sat down on the granite bench to wait.  But she did not come.  Day before yesterday I saw a rabbit, and yesterday a deer, and today, you.

Extracted from The Dandelion Girl by Robert F. Young

THE VELVETEEN RABBIT - A LOVE STORY

What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?"

"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."

"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit.

"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."

"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?"

"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." "... but once you are Real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always."

Extracted from The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams