“Mais je suis seul au bord du quai où tous les jours matin et soir je vais pour écouter les vagues – elles me parlent de toi.”

“I know that I must have been mad, senseless, to believe that snow would become animated or marble warm; but what then! They who love believe easily in love.”

“It was not until the day where you slowly slipped through my fingers like grains of sands, that I realized the mist of an autumn is no different from the sad blue hues that resides at each corner of the sky.”

I honestly think relationships in general would be healthier, in general, if we didn’t believe they should always, by default, last forever.

“Unresolved trauma can show up as the unconscious hunt for situations that are painful, unsafe and intensely disruptive. We may feel what we believe to be intuition pulling us toward situations that seem sweet on the surface but turn out to be wolves in sheeps’ clothing, waiting to re-enact painful dynamics from the past.

“After you’ve done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.”

“I mean, what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends, there’s nothing left.” - Zoë Heller, Notes on a Scandal

                                       in this light, he looks—his body looks—like a set of instructions I don’t expect

“All emotion is involuntary when genuine.”

“She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.”

“Objective judgment, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance — now, at this very moment — of all external events. That’s all you need.” - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (9.6)

“And I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.”