Mia

“The truth is I am an unlucky honest man that speaks my sentiments to all and with emphasis.”
― Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton

“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Ah God, that love were as a flower or flame,
That life were as the naming of a name,
That death were not more pitiful than desire,
That these things were not one thing and the same!”
― Algernon Charles Swinburne, Laus Veneris

“With me it is quite stark: I miss you even more than I could have believed, and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.”
― Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf