It’s tempting to imagine how we could hurt someone close, because it reminds us how fiercely we love them.
I suppose the key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth and hope that at any moment we can all be reborn.
Love is also a violence, and cannot be undone.
I didn’t know who she was, but I had this fire inside me for someone I knew existed.
We touched with a softness that pushed through the skin into memory, like arms plunged into a river – we could feel the weight of each other’s stones.
Whether you know it or not, we leave parts of ourselves wherever we go.
Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine.
The present grows within the boundaries of the past.
If there is such a thing as marriage, it takes place long before the ceremony; in a car on the way to the airport; or as a gray bedrooms fills with dawn, one lover watching the other; or as two strangers stand together in the rain with no bus in sight, arms weighed down with shopping bags. You don’t know then. But later you realize – that was the moment.
When it rains, even the most insignificant puddle is a map of the universe.
Absence makes the heart grows fonder, doesn’t it?
You are in the place that was meant for you. Everything had to be arranged like this to get you here.
You may wonder why I haven’t killed myself because living with madness or watching it flood the heart of someone we love is unbearable.
As an archaeologist, I’ve often wondered how we as a race keep going through all the misery. The answer is revealed: the potential for closeness with strangers. Floating.
Up here on this forgotten elbow of land, I have nothing to lose, and though I am more afraid now than I have ever been, I am relieved, I am unburdened, I am ascending.
Your grief is something to be admired – the pain of severance. A scar where something used to be.
Winter is for dreaming.
I want the sea to tell them I’ve found someone I want to marry and that I have to say good-bye –.
Lives are staged from within.
I think most people in the world are decent if they’re not suffering.