Maria

“If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“Actually, you said Love, for you,
is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion. It’s
terrifying. No one
will ever want to sleep with you.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“This is written in the night. In war the dark is on nobody's side, in love the dark confirms that we are together.”
― John Berger, Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance

“The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea