Love
“From a metaphorical standpoint,” writes the revered critic Hanif Abdurraqib early in his blockbuster 2017 essay collection They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, “one of the worst things we do is compare love to war. We do this in times of actual war without a thought about what it actually means. Mothers bury their children while a pop musician
... See moreTalking about love is one of the grand traditions of being alive: what it means to fall in and out of it, how to keep it, how to grieve it, how to live for ourselves and toward another .1
Evana • Birthday letters (III)
“unless someone dies, if a relationship goes wrong, you somehow had a part to play in it. how simultaneously freeing and overwhelming it is to know this. men aren’t bad, women aren’t good. people are people and we all make, allow and enable mistakes.” - what i know about love
One likes to think there’s something in it, that old platitude amor vincit omnia. But if I’ve learned one thing in my short sad life, it is that that particular platitude is a lie. Love doesn’t conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.
Donna Tartt • The Secret History
“Love is a battle,” said Marie-Claude, still smiling. “And I plan to go on fighting. To the end.” “Love is a battle?” said Franz. “Well, I don’t feel at all like fighting.” And he left.
Milan Kundera • The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Well now really when we go back into falling in love. And say, it’s crazy. Falling. You see? We don’t say “rising into love”. There is in it, the idea of the fall.
And it goes back, as a matter of fact, to extremely fundamental things. That there is always a curious tie at some point between the fall and the creation. Taking this ghastly risk is the... See more
And it goes back, as a matter of fact, to extremely fundamental things. That there is always a curious tie at some point between the fall and the creation. Taking this ghastly risk is the... See more