"Passion is not a brief candle which burns at both ends and rests against the precarious edge of youth’s vanishing moment. Passion should be a steady glow that cannot consume itself, and which, towards the end, must simmer down into a mellow warmth that will ease the cold of the years’ dying, a mere breath, but scented with the memory of delight it had served to deepen."
Ligaya Victorio Reyes, from I Am Thinking of Us Today (Philippine-American, 1945)
