“The heart gets wounded—so what? I thought. I’d seen all the plays. I should have been prepared. Love goes. But what I hadn’t known was how good the love would feel when it was there, like a hymn moving through me all the time.” LoveRomanceDesireRelationshipsHeart BreakEndingsErosHeart Ache Book:Milk Fed Source: Milk Fed
“When we think of our old lovers, and the people they are with now, we wonder what we did not have. We wonder collectively, as people, what other people have. A collective unconscious is formed, a cloud, and we laze around it and lie to each other. We tell each other we are better than one another, better than whoever he is with now. We tell it to each other, because we are well-meaning people. We tell it to each other in friendship.” PeopleRelationshipsSelf EsteemBreakups Book:So Sad Today: Personal Essays Source: So Sad Today: Personal Essays
“This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another.” Relationships Book:Death Valley Source: Death Valley