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Monkey Grip
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and you talked once again about Jessie in that way that makes me feel you are saying, “My relationship with Jessie was the high point, the great love of my life”, and that’s OK, it really is, only I get to feel a bit like some kind of
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“there will always be one question that can never find a sufficient answer. “Maybe just ‘why?’,”
― Anywhere for You
― Anywhere for You
“Never underestimate the big importance of small things”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“Then there is also this: How do you give up something that’s nestled in your marrow, this particular taste in loving, one that is crisscrossed with hate, with specks of long-ago humiliations endured but never forgotten? What I’m referring to is an appetite for a certain degree of debasement, being reduced to a panting, abject creature in the name of sexual pleasure. The fine-tuning of relative power that naturally obtains between couples pitched way up into the insistent blare of one who dominates and one who submits.”
― 22 Minutes of Unconditional Love
― 22 Minutes of Unconditional Love
“Humans need community, for our emotional health. We need connection, a sense of belonging. We are not built to thrive in isolation”
― Dear Edward
― Dear Edward
“To listen to what life sometimes murmurs into your ear, heart, or gut.”
― The Murmur of Bees
― The Murmur of Bees
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