“For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, for she considered love a serious disability.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“I wonder if I’ll keep trying to fix all the people who are already unfixable. I wonder if I’ll keep cutting myself trying to put their shattered pieces together. I wonder if I’ll ever learn that they won’t stop me from bleeding when they are the ones who keep slashing my veins.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“Did you ever love me Biopsy from the origin of sound Confirms you're speaking truthfully Concludes everything I thought about”— Modern Baseball, play.spotify.com
“What lazy lovers we are. Such reluctant soulmates. My hair comes out in the shower and I swear it misses your hands. I have weeks of unplayed Jeopardy!. I don’t want to ask questions. I know better than to ask anything at all.”— Brenna Twohy, brennatwohy.tumblr.com
“Do you think anger is a sincere emotion or the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?”— Andrea Gibson, youtube.com
“You are endless days of summer. You are infinities. And in some other life, I choose to be all those things alongside you.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“Love is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart.”— Tammara Webber, amazon.com
“I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand and the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep and there are no words for that.”— Brian Andreas, amazon.com
“We’re built of contradictions, all of us. It’s those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the next. Give me a man whose parts are all aligned in agreement and I’ll show you madness. We walk a narrow path, insanity to each side. A man without contradictions to bala…”— Mark Lawrence, amazon.com
“I sit up in the dark drenched in longing. I am carrying over a thousand names for blue that I didn’t have at dusk.”— Joy Harjo, amazon.com
“If you had a friend you knew you’d never see again, what would you say? If you could do one last thing for someone you love, what would it be? Say it, do it, don’t wait. Nothing lasts forever”— Brooke Davis, amazon.com
“This is the use of memory: For liberation—not less of love but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the future as well as the past.”— T. S. Eliot, amazon.com