Cecily Lewis

“Why we fall in love is attachment, which is sort of a biological pursuit of wholeness.”
― Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Love, according to the parable, is the pursuit of our own wholeness. We wander the earth in search of our lost half. And when two halves find each other, as Aristophanes says, “the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy, and one will not be out of the other’s sight, as I may say, even for a moment: these are the people who pass their whole lives together;”
― Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

“Attachment is about survival; relationships are about survival. When they are threatened, we do whatever it takes to hold on to them, because there are no higher stakes than our connection with our attachment objects.”
― Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life