Sign in with Facebook
Libby Segal
http://www.thehobbyhoarder.com
“Love is like a ripe peach. You take it when and where you find it, there's no point in letting it sit around. If you're lucky to come across it, you'd better enjoy it right then and there.”
― Geography of the Heart: A Memoir
― Geography of the Heart: A Memoir
“Grief is love's alter ego, after all, yin to its yang, the necessary other; like night, grief has its own dark beauty. How may we know light without knowledge of dark? How may we know love without sorrow? "The disorientation following such loss can be terrible, I know" Wendell Berry wrote me on learning of Larry's death. "But grief gives the full measure of love, and it is somehow reassuring to learn, even by suffering, how large, and powerful love is.”
―
―
“You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?”
― Written on the Body
― Written on the Body
“This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.”
― Murder in the Cathedral
― Murder in the Cathedral
“To love is to willingly lower our defenses, a terrifying prospect any time and place but especially so at a time and in a place where we perceive ourselves as having so much (HIV; violence; social; cultural; environmental degradation) to defend ourselves against. To love is to give oneself to another, to entrust to someone else a power that all good sense would have us reserve to ourselves. So we give away some part of ourselves, to find that part returned to us tenfold, in ways we could never have predicted and cannot rationally understand. Loaves and fishes. Miracles happen.”
― Geography of the Heart: A Memoir
― Geography of the Heart: A Memoir
Libby’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Libby’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
492 books
|
60 friends
751 books
|
110 friends
423 books
|
121 friends
386 books
|
225 friends
1,797 books
|
79 friends
543 books
|
63 friends
2,303 books
|
634 friends
485 books
|
105 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Libby
Lists liked by Libby
