1. "Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it’s unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole person we cannot go to: the one we love. So instead we seek out allies, even among strangers and wives, fellow patients who, if they can’t touch the edge of our particular sorrow, have felt something that cuts nearly as deep."
    Andrew Sean Greer, The Story of a Marriage (via helplesslyamazed)
  4. "When I touch her, my fingers don’t question what she is. My body knows who she is. The strange thing about strangers is that they are unknown and known. There is a pattern to her, a shape I understand, a private geometry that numbers mine. She is a maze where I got lost years ago, and now find the way out. She is the missing map. She is the place that I am. She is a stranger. She is the strange that I am beginning to love."
    The Stone Gods, Jeanette Winterson (via helplesslyamazed)
  7. mentalmystic: Christina Empedocles

    mentalmystic:

    Christina Empedocles

  9. flatteryoconnor:

    I thought
    that pain meant
    I was not loved.
    It meant I loved. 

    - Louise Gluck

  10. Leave nothing behind, not a trace or a crumb
    And no clues to how long or painful this was.