Jo Chang’s Reviews > Carnality > Status Update

…the feeling she experienced at that moment: the first real act of her entire life. and then she will wish she could say all she felt was the elation that comes with mercy and the power to act, but she knows she felt something else as well in that moment. something she neither will nor can explain. but that muddy, churning surge of envy pure love created in the lonely person has completely subsided…

when someone falls in love, they fall in love with the combination of scents they would produce together with the other person. they are searching for a complete fusion with another element. stone, which is shaped by time, but also eroded by the motion of the sea. could that be what is haunting you as well- this primeval human longing for the ocean, for stone and rock?

a tremor runs through the cosmos when love is broken. i was carrying that quiver inside me, a wave front that, though it would vibrate every now and then, could sometimes be as powerful as an earthquake. i had been carrying it inside me for a long time, and now i understood it would not stop until soledad could forgive me…