CosmicUnity

“Give your friendships the magic you would give a romance. Because they're just as important. Actually, for us, they're way more important.”
― Alice Oseman, Loveless

“Love is not proud. Love has no real name. Love is for life itself, and we have life.”
― Cordwainer Smith, The Best of Cordwainer Smith

“The twilight struck chilly as he went outside. He experienced for the first time that special dread brought by the first touch of winter to lovers who have nowhere to meet except out of doors.”
― Mary Renault, The Charioteer

“We have reached a state of individuation in which only the fully developed mature personality can make fruitful use of freedom; if the individual has not developed his reason and his capacity for love, he is incapable of bearing the burden of freedom and individuality, and tries to escape into artificial ties which give him a sense of belonging and rootedness.”
― Erich Fromm, The Sane Society