Bridget M.

“I want, I don’t want.
How can one live with such a heart?”
― Margaret Atwood, Selected Poems 2: 1976 - 1986

“....love and desire enjoy a symbiotic relationship, meaning that one cannot exist without the other. Desire is an enemy to contentment; desire is illness, a feverish brain. Who can be considered healthy who wants? The very word want suggests a lack, an impoverishment, and that is what desire is: an impoverishment of the brain, a flaw, a mistake.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers

“Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.”
― Siri Hustvedt, The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves