Koko

“When we encounter a person of exceptional intellectual and creative vitality, their magnetism can disorient the compass needle of admiration and attraction—it becomes difficult, sometimes impossible, to tease apart the desire to be with from the desire to be like.”
― Maria Popova, Figuring

“What is love, after all, if not an affectionate acceptance of the lover's full spectrum of being, the silly along with the solemn?”
― Maria Popova, Figuring

“I want to talk about everything with at least one person as I talk about things with myself.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The richest relationships are often those that don’t fit neatly into the preconceived slots we have made for the archetypes we imagine would populate our lives—the friend, the lover, the parent, the sibling, the mentor, the muse. We meet people who belong to no single slot, who figure into multiple categories at different times and in different magnitudes. We then must either stretch ourselves to create new slots shaped after these singular relationships, enduring the growing pains of self-expansion, or petrify.”
― Maria Popova, Figuring