Lorien

“All companionship can consist in only the strengthening of neighboring solitudes, giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a person abandons himself, he is no longer anything, and when two people both give themselves up in order to become closer to each other, there is no longer any ground beneath them and their being together is a continual falling – I have learned over and over again, there is scarcely anything more difficult than to love one another.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“let your love out”
― Roald Dahl, The BFG

“Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.”
― Khalil Gibran

“A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.”
― Aldous Huxley