Larry

“And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.”
― Raymond Carver

“We drift apart from each other until we are so alone the ache becomes routine.”
― Steven Bruce, Caffeine

“Strength comes, not in the grip, but the opening of the hand.”
― Steven Bruce, White Knuckle

“I want you to know, if you ever read this, there was a time when I would rather have had you by my side than any one of these words; I would rather have had you by my side than all the blue in the world.

But now you are talking as if love were a consolation. Simone Weil warned otherwise. 'Love is not consolation,' she wrote. 'It is light.'

All right then, let me try to rephrase. When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets