l’amour
"And we leave home and go to live with this person for ever; not because we are sure that he is the right person: in fact we are not entirely sure, and we always suspect that the right person for us is hiding away goodness knows where in the city. But we don't want to know where he is hiding; we feel that we have by now very little to say to him, b
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"For weeks and months we spend our days with the right person without realising; only sometimes, the thought of the curve of his lips, of certain of his gestures and the intonation of his voice, produces a slight tremor in our heart: but we don't think anything of such a slight, muffled tremor. The strange thing is when we are with this person we a
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and Arthur was amazed that kissing could feel like that, like both a blessing and a comfort,
Lex Croucher • Gwen and Art Are Not in Love
Love demands a complete inner transformation — for without this we cannot possibly come to identify ourselves with our brother. We have to become, in some sense, the person we love. And this involves a kind of death of our own being, our own self.
Catherine Shannon • Overcoming isolation within the self
Thomas Merton
“If life transcends death, then I will seek for you there. If not, then there too.”
Corey, James S. A. • Caliban's War: Book 2 of the Expanse (now a Prime Original series)
love is not permanently gifted, it’s loaned