Elizabeth

“Your love for me does not exist in the real world. Yes, it is love, I do not deny it. But not every love has a course to run, smooth or otherwise, and this love has no course at all . . . But that is remote from love and remote from ordinary life. As real people we do not exist for each other.”
― Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head

“I had survived the vulnerability of childhood, and the danger of first love. There was comfort in knowing that I would never be in either of those positions again, that, from now on, I would be the only person responsible for my own happiness.”
― Peter Swanson, The Kind Worth Killing

“My body contains me and that’s enough”
― Julie Murphy

“Understand me deeply,
touch me intimately in ways that
don't involve your hands.”
― Nikki rowe