‘Now I know what’s been missing. It’s not anything in you, it’s in me … I cannot believe … I simply could not believe that you loved me that much and so I assumed I wasn’t in love with you … Now I understand. It seems that people have taken from me the ability to believe … but now I can … you’ve taught me how … I love you … not madly, but I love

‘how can one person make another person so happy? What amazing powers we must have, hidden deep inside us.’

they were all busy with the tasks that life had given them. There was meaning in everything they did, even if I could not see at first glance. And I was but the wheel that had spun off its axle, still searching for reasons as I wobbled off into the void.

‘What you’re talking about is the moment. The moment that the love already inside you comes, through mysterious forces, to concentrate its full force on a single point. Just as warm sunlight can, by passing through a lens, turn to fire, so too can love. It’s wrong to see it as something that swoops in from outside. It’s because it arises from the

This intimacy came from thinking alike; in truth, it came from accepting one side of an idea while preparing to pay the price demanded by the other. But isn’t this how souls come together, by holding another’s every idea to be true and making it their own?

But what I hate most is women always having to be passive … Why? Why are we always the ones running away and you are the ones chasing after us? Why is it always that we surrender and you take the spoils? Why is it that even in the way you beg, there is dominance, and pity in the way we refuse?

Men and women have such a hard time understanding what we want from each other, and our emotions are so foggy that we hardly know what we are doing.

A soul only came forward when it found its twin, when it felt no need to rely on mere words to explain itself … It was only then that we truly began to live – live with our soul.

The essence of life is in solitude – wouldn’t you agree? All unions are built on falsehood. People can only get to know each other up to a point and then they make up the rest, until one day, seeing their mistake, they turn their backs on sadness and run away.