“Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.”
—Alice Hoffman
“...she was ready to sail among the stars...”
—Katherine Mansfield
“I want to see him, and to touch and to feel him.”
—Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“She, all dressed in black satin, walking like an empress, smelling deliciously.”
—Sylvia Townsend Warner A Love Match
“I melt at your glances and become music.”
—Mahmound Darwish A River Dies of Thirst.
We seek and hide
We break and mend
We teach and learn
We write
- Nikki Giovanni
“You are lovelier than life itself,”
—D.H. Lawrence Intime
Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure
~~ Lord Byron
“Crawl inside this body - find me where I am most ruined, love me there.”
—Rune Lazuli
“What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.”
—Charles Bukowski
"You're not drunk if you can lay on the floor without holding on" - Dean Martin
“Her mouth is like a wound.”
—Georg Trakl
“I would go with you to the world's end and to the end of life.”
—Henrik Ibsen
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
-Thomas Jefferson
“Man in the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
—Albert Camus
“And theres always my infinite love—You are a sweet person—the sweetest and dearest of all and I love you as I love my vanished youth—which is as much as a human heart can hold—filled with copper clouds like the after-math of a cannon-fire, pre-war, civil-war clouds and I feel all empty and bored and very much in love with you, my dear one, my own. I wish you were here so we could stretch our legs down beside one another and feel all warm and hidden in the bed, like seeds beaten into earth. Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world, and why is there a sleepy tremulo in the air when you are near that's promising and living like a vibrating fecundity?...excuse me for being so intellectual. I know you would prefer something nice and feminine and affectionate.”
—Zelda Fitzgerald in a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Todos necesitamos alguna vez un cómplice, alguien que nos ayude usar el corazón.”
—Mario Benedetti
"Fuck!!! That hurt!"
Me, stubbing my toe.
“Could it think, the heart would stop beating.”
—Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet