Even If I Don’t See it Again
Even if I don’t see it again–nor ever feel it
I know it is–and that if once it hailed me
it ever does–
and so it is myself I want to turn in that direction
not as towards a place, but it was a tilting
within myself,
as one turns a mirror to flash the light to where
it isn’t–I was blinded like that–and swam
in what shone at me.
only able to endure it by being no one and so
specifically myself I thought I’d die
from being loved like that.”
– Marie Howe
“If you want to be a true friend, be honest, and unmerciful.
That’s a difficult thing to do. Being honest with people—it ticks some people off. People like to believe what they want to believe. When you question them, when you tell them you don’t agree with them, when you challenge them—you don’t have to be a jerk about it, you can say these things in an ordinary, respectful conversation, and they’ll lose their minds on you.
That’s okay.
Because when you find people in this world who are also unmercifully honest, it’s like diving into a pool after going for a jog on a sweltering summer day.’
– Philip Seymour Hoffman
“People need each other. That actual interaction or relationship or friendship or romantic love affair. All the different ways relationships take form is one of the hardest things we do in our lives. It’s one of the biggest risks we’ll take in our lives. And let’s deal with it. And see what happens.”
– Philip Seymour Hoffman
“You can’t have relationships if you’re not willing to be disappointed and hurt by that person. It’s impossible. If you say yes to someone, I will, you are also saying, I will be hurt by you. You have to be able to enter into the world and realize the richness of life is all the good and joy and thrill of it, but also all the disappointment, hurt, and heartache of it. And that all of that is what’s great.”
– Philip Seymour Hoffman
“I’d cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.”
– Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
“You shouldn’t find someone else until you find yourself.”
– Will Koz
