Alicia Tapia

“Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition.”
― Bell Hooks

“My grief was a heavy, despairing sadness caused by parting from a companion of many years but, more important, it was a despair rooted in the fear that love did not exist, could not be found. And even if it were lurking somewhere, I might never know it in my lifetime. It had become hard for me to continue to believe in love's promise when everywhere I turned the enchantment of power of the terror of fear overshadowed the will to love.”
― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“Grandpapa used to say, about difficulties he had gone through, 'It did not kill me, it made me knowledgeable.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

“Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on love's path is communication.”
― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions