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“The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.”
― Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet

“To feel anything
deranges you. To be seen
feeling anything strips you
naked. In the grip of it
pleasure or pain doesn’t
matter. You think what
will they do what new
power will they acquire if
they see me naked like
this. If they see you
feeling. You have no idea
what. It’s not about them.
To be seen is the penalty.”
― Anne Carson, Red Doc>

“God help me, yes. I don't want anything more than you. I want nothing less than you.”
― T.J. Klune, Into This River I Drown

“He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders