Monthly Archives: January 2014

Will Hard says its deep in my memory…

Posted on January 30, 2014 by Attempted Love

My earliest memory of love.  Like all early childhood memories, it has a hazy dreamlike quality.  It’s one of those childhood stories that was repeated dozens (hundreds) of times by my parents.  It is still repeated today. In the dream … Continue reading →

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Will Hard says that’s the real love I have for you, now and always…

Posted on January 30, 2014 by Attempted Love

A note for a friend: “Friends can help each other.  A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself.–and especially to feel.  Or, not feel.  Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is … Continue reading →

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Edna St. Vincent Millay says I have lost you; and I lost you fairly…

Posted on January 18, 2014 by Attempted Love

“Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly; In my own way, and with my full consent. Say what you will, kings in a tumbrel rarely Went to their deaths more proud than this one went. Some nights … Continue reading →

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Tim O’Brien says I wanted to melt into her bones…

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Attempted Love

“Even then, at nine years old, I wanted to live inside her body. I wanted to melt into her bones – THAT kind of love.” – Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried

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Charles Caleb Colton says fill her above the brim with love of herself…

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Attempted Love

“If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself ~ all that runs over will be yours.” – Charles Caleb Colton

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Michael Kelahan says the more I examine my own mind…

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Attempted Love

“The more I examine my own mind, the more romantic I find myself.” – Michael Kelahan, The World’s Greatest Love Letters

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Haruki Murakami says person a understand person b because the time is right for that to happen…

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Attempted Love

“Person A understand Person B because the time is right for that to happen, not because Person B wants to be understood by Person A.” – Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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