Abigail

“The magic beauty of simultaneity, to see the loved one rushing toward you at the same moment you are rushing toward him, the magic power of meeting, exactly at midnight to achieve union, the illusion of one common rhythm achieved by overcoming obstacles, deserting friends, breaking other bonds - all this was soon dissolved by his laziness, by his habit of missing every moment, of never keeping his word, of living perversely in a state of chaos, of swimming more naturally in a sea of failed intentions, broken promises, and aborted wishes”
― Anaïs Nin, The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel

“I can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you; obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came with her.”
― Anaïs Nin

“I am more interested in human beings than in writing, more interested in lovemaking than in writing, more interested in living than in writing. More interested in becoming a work of art than in creating one.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947

“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness.”
― Anaïs Nin