“What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.”— Joseph Campbell, gointothestory.blcklst.com
“I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life’s major mysteries.”— Iris Murdoch, amazon.com
“Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.”— Michael Cunningham, amazon.com
“I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion—and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies.”— Ram Dass, facebook.com
“You forget what it was like. You’d swear on your life you never will, but year by year it falls away.”— Tana French, amazon.com
“There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.”— Augusten Burroughs, amazon.com
“Then I withdrew my hand and she smoothed her skirt, neither of us risking a word, and we teetered there for a hundred heartbeats on those swaying branches, shaken by inner as well as outer winds.”— Scott Russell Sanders, amazon.com
“Have you ever wanted somebody that you shouldn’t?”— Jenji Kohan, Tiffany "Pennsatucky" Doggett, Taryn Manning, imdb.com