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“You know that to love is both to swim and to drown. You know to love is to be a whole, partial, a joint, a fracture, a heart, a bone. It is to bleed and heal. It is to be in the world, honest. It is to place someone next to your beating heart, in the absolute darkness of your inner, and trust they will hold you close. To love is to trust, to trust is to have faith. How else are you meant to love? You knew what you were getting into, but taking the Underground, returning home with no certainty of when you will see her next, it is terrifying.”
― Open Water
― Open Water
“To love someone like that, to know how beautiful and wholesome and healing such a love is, and to turn your back on it required no strength at all.”
― Open Water
― Open Water
“You fit, as if this has been your everyday.”
― Open Water
― Open Water
“She tells you she loves you and now you know that you don't have to be the sum of your traumas, that multiple truths exist, that you love her too.”
― Open Water
― Open Water
“...What time are you seeing her?'
'How do you know it's a woman?'
'This isn't my first rodeo
'What do you mean?'
'You look like you got hit by a bus, and you dusted yourself off, and did it again for the hell of it. You look like you're wondering when the next time you can get hit by that bus is.”
― Open Water
'How do you know it's a woman?'
'This isn't my first rodeo
'What do you mean?'
'You look like you got hit by a bus, and you dusted yourself off, and did it again for the hell of it. You look like you're wondering when the next time you can get hit by that bus is.”
― Open Water
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