No one fights dirtier or more brutally than blood; only family knows it’s own weaknesses, the exact placement of the heart. The tragedy is that one can still live with the force of hatred, feel infuriated that once you are born to another, that kin...
That is the true challenge--to work within a narrow confine. To accept what you cannot have; that from which you cannot deviate.
The truly terrible thing about this life, was not knowing what you want, but only able to recognize what you do not want. You have to spend so much time and energy trying to find it out, time that other people spent in pursuing of their desires.
All you have to go on is the faith of a kiss.
The worst dream of the night, when you are parted from someone you love and you do not know exactly where he is, but you know that he is in the presence of danger. You are tormented by a desire to keep the one you love safe.
No one knows how another person feels in private.
Read "The Story of O." Convince yourself that it was in fact written by a woman or someone who thinks like a woman.
…she eventually forgave him, because she understood him.
Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.
The best men tell you the truth because they think you can take it; the worst men either try to preserve you in some innocent state with their false protection, or are ‘brutally honest.’ When someone tells, lets you think for yourself, experience...
…brotherhood of the firstborn, which can be both a blessing and a curse: the overwhelming attention to the detail of their lives and development. The expectations that run too high: being the bridge between adults and children, one foot in either p...
Think about what binds you to your husband and he to you. Marvel at the strength of that bond, which is both abstract and concrete, spiritual and legal.
All this because one race did not have the decency to be ashamed of dealing in human flesh.
