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“i feel best when i’m not looked at i wish no one could see me i wish i didn’t have a body”

“Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.”

“Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.”

People often forget the eroticism of connecting through mind & spirit. The way a body tingles when its soul has been stroked by another's. The comfort when someone not only understands you, but feels you.

If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.

“I’d rather be homesick than be at home.”

“I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time.”

He was frightened of everything, it sometimes seemed, and he hated that about himself. Fear and hatred, fear and hatred: often, it seemed that those were the only two qualities he possessed. Fear of everyone else; hatred of himself.

“Understand, I’ll slip quietly away from the noisy crowd when I see the pale stars rising, blooming, over the oaks. I’ll pursue solitary pathways through the pale twilit meadows, with only this one dream: You come too.”

“I dreamt of you last night—as if I was playing the piano and you were turning the pages for me.”

“For a moment you are asleep in my heart. What more can I ask for? I am rocking inside your breaths. I have turned into the words you whisper. When I speak to you, I clothe my heart with your heart. When you tighten and tremble into love, these dreams wander into distant fields and leave no tracks, I have never been so lost, I have never been so certain of where I am.”

“I love you, and I’m conscious of you all the time.”

“‘I think that one of these days,’ he said, 'you’re going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you’ve got to start going there.’”

“I want to talk and talk and talk — About music; about love;”

“I can’t tell you how piercingly and endlessly I think about you.”

“I could only think of you as being very distant and beautiful and calm. A lighthouse in clean waters.”

“I think it’s foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary—you’re happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life. Happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.”