Azimeh

“The body is a baby's first vehicle of emotional registration, before they have any language with which to call a need a need, a feeling a feeling, an emotion an emotion. In an infant, these authors observe, emotion is first experienced as excitations (pain, tension, nausea, etc.) at the level of the internal organs (stomach, heart, etc.), the head, the musculature, and the skin. The body itself, albeit passively, becomes the organ of registration of our earliest emotions.”
― Teri Quatman, Essential Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: An Acquired Art

“Maybe grief is love imploding. Or maybe it’s love expanding. I don’t know. I just know you can’t create loss to preempt loss because it doesn’t work that way. So you might as well love as much as you can. And as recklessly. Like it’s your last resort, because it is.”
― Catherine Newman, Sandwich

“He could no longer believe, but he cherished the memory of belief, and especially the centrality and beauty of Christian ritual in country life, and what it had meant to earlier generations and still meant to some.”
― Claire Tomalin, Thomas Hardy

“Postwar U.S. policies in Japan, enforced by boots on the ground, succeeded beyond expectations, transforming a bitter foe into America’s strongest ally in Asia.”
― S.C.M. Paine, The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949