love

Anyone who’s ever shifted from general affection and enthusiasm for a lover to outright obsession knows what I mean: the relationship is just there, occupying a small corner of your heart, and then you wake up one morning and some indefinable tide has turned forever and you can’t go back.

It let me know I’d be taken care of when the need became too strong. When you love somebody, or something, it’s amazing how willing you are to overlook the flaws.

What wouldn’t you do to be held? Don’t tell me you’ve never taped shut your own mouth.

sometimes entire libraries of epic poems land in your palm as a single paper-thin sigh. sometimes it is as simple as love.

That’s your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.”

Napoleon said men will die for bits of ribbon pinned to their chests, but the General understands that even more men will die for a man who remembered their names, as he does theirs.

am glad my young hero did not turn out to be too rational at such a moment, since there will always be plenty of opportunity for an intelligent person to employ his intellect, but if love did not hold sway in his heart at such an exceptional moment, would it ever do so?

This is the only way I know how to tell someone what I want, to describe the infinitely unfolded accordion of my heart. To love with a rage gone blind from the knowledge of the stolen lands, dirty wars, honor killings, false idols, forced soldiers, and buried throats haunting every sentence. Too many truths setting my retinas ablaze, and me mad,

if you come together with one other person like yourself, there you have a whole world, a world of vibrant love;