l’amour
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
From Giovanni’s Room - finding this online is super serendipitous as I highlighted this passage while reading the book in bed last night ! that has to mean something !
"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
... See moreThe Little Virtues, Natalia Ginzburg
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.”