“If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.”
– W.H. Auden
“If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.”
– W.H. Auden
“Perhaps that is why desire causes men calamity. By identifying with our desires and taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires.”
– Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
“I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?”
– Stephanie Lennox, I Don’t Remember You
“To love those who love us and are good to us is easy. To love those who are indifferent to us is workable, but to love those who have harmed us, intentionally or not, is true growth and realization.”
– Patsie Smith, Awaken Our Spirit Within: A Jouney of Self-Realization and Transformation
“Why is it,” he said, one time, at the subway entrance, “I feel I’ve known you so many years?”
“Because I like you,” she said, “and I don’t want anything from you.”
– Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451