“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“We’d torn open our chests and shown our cowardly hearts, and you can never stay friends after something like that”
― Jesus’ Son
― Jesus’ Son
“Człowiek dlatego jest człowiekiem, że ciekawość wygrywa ze strachem.”
― Morfina
― Morfina
“I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or
wake at night alone,
I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again,
I am to see to it that I do not lose you.”
― Leaves of Grass
wake at night alone,
I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again,
I am to see to it that I do not lose you.”
― Leaves of Grass
“Dancing falls into the same category as poetry for a woman – it equals dreaming, which may inspire thoughts about such banned topics as love and desire.”
― The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
― The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
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