"He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment- because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it."

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Humans have various ways of coping with extended stress, and one is the anticipation of a better time. Here, as with retribution, there is often a kind of symmetry: the more intense the stress and the more hopeless the situation, the more fabulous the coming times that are anticipated.

— Robert Wright