phlegthon

“It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.”

“Let someone love you just the way you are – as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel, and as unaccomplished as you think you are. To believe that you must hide all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is incapable of loving what is less than perfect, is to believe that sunlight is incapable of entering a broken window and illuminating a dark room.”

“Never look at another person’s life and then think that you are not enough. You are more than enough for the right people.”

“Then we’d shower and go out and feel like two exposed, live wires giving off sparks each time they so much as sparked at each other. Look at old houses and want to hug each one, …pass an art gallery and look for the hole in the nude….Find Cupid everywhere in Rome because we’d clipped one of his wings and he was forced to fly in circles.”

“There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind on snow, rain on trees, wave on stone. It is the language of dream, gesture, symbol, memory. We have forgotten this language. We do not even remember that it exists.”

“It feels good to think about you when I’m warm in bed. I feel as if you’re curled up there beside me, fast asleep. And I think how great it would be if it were true.”

“Hardship often prepares ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”