Jaime K

“She comes to life with a soft exhausted sound, like someone saved from drowning.”
― James Salter, A Sport and a Pastime

“Things I forgot to tell you:

That I love you, and that when I awake in the morning I use my intelligence to discover more ways of appreciating you.

That when June comes back she will love you more because I have loved you. There are new leaves on the tip and climax of your already overrich head.

That I love you.
That I love you.
That I love you.

I have become an idiot like Gertrude Stein. That’s what love does to intelligent women. They cannot write letters anymore.”
― Anaïs Nin, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953

“Love like this was all consuming. I found that I was jealous of the strangest things - sunlight, streets, curtains, even her clothing, anything that was close to her.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Museum of Extraordinary Things

“She was learning something important: how to live within the sound of her own slow breathing, how to love the view when her eyes were shut.”
― Gwendoline Riley