Josephine M

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
― Anaïs Nin

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
― Anais Nin

“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement