“We are obligated to the people we care about and who we allow to care about us, whether we say we love them or not. Our main obligation is to be forthright—to elucidate the nature of our affection when such elucidation would be meaningful or clarifying.”
― Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
― Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
“and in your life my infinite dreams live.”
― Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
― Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
“We see what a punishing business it is, simply being alive.”
― The Little Stranger
― The Little Stranger
“To fully understand about hugging, maybe you had to have missed a lot of it.”
― Rose Madder
― Rose Madder
“Love me so I know I am at least as important as anything you have ever wanted.”
― Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
― Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
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