#love

In his book Unweaving the Rainbow, scientist Richard Dawkins says,

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly,

Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.

-W.S Mervin, Separation.

"To be with you or not to be with you is the measure of my time" Jorge Luis Borges, The Threatened Man (El Amenazado)

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up a whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders

“She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.” ― J.D. Salinger