Sommer-Jade

“Sure? You say you're *sure*? Sure that you're in love. How can you know it? You think love is so simple? So you are in love. Deeply in love. Is that what you're saying to me?”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Maybe we're just born to love and worry about the people we know, and to go on loving and worrying even when there are more important things we should be doing. And if that means the human species is going to die out, isn't it in a way a nice reason to die out, the nicest reason you can imagine? Because when we should have been reorganising the distribution of the world's resources and transitioning collectively to a sustainable economic model, we were worrying about sex and friendship instead. Because we loved each other too much and found each other too interesting. And I love that about humanity, and in fact it's the very reason I root for us to survive - because we are so stupid about each other.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast, and these two people in the water, trying to hold on to each other, holding as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart. That's how I think it is with us. It's a shame, Cath, because we've loved each other all our lives, but in the end, we can't stay together forever.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“To reach an understanding in a dialogue is not merely a matter of putting oneself forward and successfully asserting one’s own point of view, but being transformed into a communion in which we do not remain what we were.”
― Hans-Georg Gadamer