“What is it like to be a prophet? Everywhere Cassandra ran she found she was already there.”

“You begin to adore a god that nobody else bows down to. A very powerful and very fragile god, very threatening and very threatened.”

Eve couldn’t leave Adam because Adam was the only man on earth.

there is a level of seduction that exists beyond the body. something less tangible, and perhaps more potent. anais nin understood this idea about how desire does not begin with touch but with language, perception, and the sharp electric pull of a mind that challenges and excites you. in her journals, desire is not just a physical hunger but a hunger of the intellect, an unraveling of thought before an unraveling of the body. to be drawn into someone’s mind, to feel their thoughts press against your own, can be more intoxicating than any physical closeness.