I want

"That's all we've got." When I held my breath to watch his face, I knew I loved him: I could hear it - like the pause before sunrise, or the small drumming of clean rain.
"Do you think I could feel your skin again ?"
"If you want."
"I want."
And for one complete moment, "I want" was the absolute truth.

A.L. Kennedy, at end of Groucho's Moustache