Stephanie Biddle

“The world shrinks to include only two people, only one of whom -- the beloved -- has power. This inequitable distribution naturally breeds resentment and feelings of hopelessness that the dependent person dare not express for fear of alienating the necessary person even more.”
― Jeanne Safer, The Golden Condom: And Other Essays on Love Lost and Found

“I brought you here to tell you this: sometimes what we are searching for does not exist. We may sacrifice for it, even bleed for it, but it was never meant to be ours.”
― Esther Dalseno, Drown

“I thought that you could hear all my unspoken words.....for I misunderstood the language of my own love was so intense and your ears were so brittle!”
― BinYamin gulzar

“I HOLD

If I could have had
him,
I could have let
him
go.

But without
the having
there was
nothing—
so to the nothing
I
hold.”
― Coco J. Ginger