Alexandra

“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”
― Rumi

“An honorable human relationship – that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "love" – is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.

It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation.

It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity.

It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.”
― Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence. Selected Prose 1966-1978

“In parallel with their ceaseless consumption of time, people would ceaselessly reproduce time that they had mentally adjusted.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“That is why it is necessary for you to fasten your feelings to the earth—firmly, like attaching an anchor to a balloon.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84