#miaojin

Maybe I could love a number of others, whether physically or spiritually. But I know that it would never reach the depth and completeness of my love for you. I could never want to belong to someone else the way I want in both body and heart to belong to you. -Qiu Miaojin, Last Words From Montmartre

So though I'm desperate and my love unrequited, I persist in loving you with every last part of my soul. -Qiu Miaojin, Last Words From Montmartre

My desire for someone else could never reach the degree of want I feel for you. Do you know all this? So it's you, just you. There can never be anyone else for the deepest reaches of my body and soul. Even if you don't want me anymore, don't love me anymore, and don't belong to me anymore. -Qiu Miaojin, Last Words From Montmartre

My soul is slipping away from you even as I try to cling to it. -Qiu Miaojin, Last Words From Montmartre

Your spirit and my spirit are made from the same material. -Qiu Miaojin, Last Words From Montmartre

For more than a month now I haven't been able to think about you without feeling wounded and resentful because needing or desiring you would hurt even worse (...) -Qiu Miaojin, Last Words From Montmartre

But how can my sorrow ever end when I'm so alone here? Even if I were to reconcile with everyone in the world I've ever hurt and who's hurt me, would my sorrow end? Why is there so much hurt in the world? My soul has already endured so much wounding. Can it sustain more? How can it assimilate so many wounds? Will it be able to assimilate the wounds and then move on and make a fresh start? -Qiu Miaojin, Last Words From Montmartre