Sarah Aranda

“Pastimes and games are substitutes for the real living of real intimacy.”
― Eric Berne, Games people play: The psychology of human relationships

“Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin”
― Matthew 6 28

“In short, a diamond bracelet is a much more honest instrument of courtship than a perforated stomach. She has the option of throwing the jewelry back at him, but she cannot decently walk out on the ulcer. ("Look How Hard I've Been Trying")”
― Eric Berne, Games People Play

“Lay your sleeping head, my love,
Human on my faithless arm;
Time and fevers burn away
Individual beauty from
Thoughtful children, and the grave
Proves the child ephemeral:
But in my arms till break of day
Let the living creature lie,
Mortal, guilty, but to me
The entirely beautiful.”
― W.H. Auden