Leon Kortkamp

“I must think about something else for a while. But then I remember his warn arms and his big strong legs touching mine and how hard and wide his chest was and how hot his kiss was, and I got outside and feed the chickens. They are getting mighty fat.”
― Nancy E. Turner, These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901

“Sometimes there aren't words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to wrap my arms around him.”
― Jodi Picoult

“Sidda sank down into the wide flannel embrace of their bodies, and she rested. For a moment she died a little death, they died it together.”
― Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

“It is we ourselves who must answer the questions that life asks of us, and to those questions we can respond only by being responsible for our existence.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning