Intimacy

true recognition requires time, repetition, and a kind of patient witnessing that most relationships don’t get to practice. in an era built for speed, we forget that intimacy is slow. it grows through small, unremarkable moments: the way someone brings you water without asking, or finishes your sentence but in the way you would’ve finished it

I’m a hard person to unravel, I’m an endless ball of yarn, a labyrinth in the dark, I’m not anything you want - Eliza McLamb in Anything You Want