All relationships are built on boundaries that both keep in and keep out. I had wanted an in-betweenness, but perhaps only because we couldn’t and didn’t cross the traditional boundaries.

If it weren’t for the circumstances, we might have fallen into a conventional romance. I’m afraid I’m only trying so hard to find an ambiguous fourth category for... See more

The tragic freedom implied by love is this: that we all have an indefinitely extended capacity to imagine the being of others. Tragic, because there is no prefabricated harmony, and others are, to an extent we never cease discovering, different from ourselves… Freedom is exercised in the confrontation by each other, in the context of an infinitely

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maybe because in a world where connection feels scarce, loneliness haunts us. the idea of complete surrender is seductive . and the narrative keeps replaying, because it’s gripping, painful, and undeniably human . it holds up fractured mirrors for us to see not just what love is, but what it can do when we forget to hold ourselves close too.