all one, sharing one breath

“A healthy relationship is where two independent people just make a deal that they will help the other person be the best version of themselves.”

Allowing yourself to recharge isn’t a weakness. It’s a strength.

“What you’re saying is often less important than what you’re feeling when you’re saying it.”

I felt happy. A simple, pure happiness, the trivial ecstasy that does not trouble the senses but that spirits away the frontiers between body and soul–a transparent intoxication consisting of perfumes, smiles, and the promise of love.

“Enchantment frightens us for a good reason. Whether it’s enchantment of the ordinary kind or the magical kind, it may very well change us, and we may not be able to return to our old selves, to our old certainties and our easy understandings. Magical people seem to fear that less than the rest of us. They want to be enchanted and are quite willing to be changed forever as they go deeper and deeper into realms beyond everyday understanding.”