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I turn away—even if what I want most is to tell you everything.

Ocean Vuong, from On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

To say we were 'in love', that vague weakened phrase, cannot express it. We loved each other, we lived in each other, through each other, by each other. We were each other.

Iris Murdoch, from 'The Sea, the Sea'

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If the horror is inside you how do you get it out?

Gut Symmetries, Jeanette Winterson (via salemwitchtrials)

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But there is something of a lighthousekeeper in me, and I am not afraid of solitude, nor of nature in her wildness.

Jeanette Winterson, from Frankissstein. (via xshayarsha)

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Ilyas Abu Shabaka, tr. by Adnan Haydar and Michael Beard, from Modern Arabic Poetry: an anthology; “You or I?”

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I look out and the sun like your hand on my face

is warm, and for a moment I think this is glorious, this is what forgiveness feels like.

— Rafael Campo, from “California”

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“He was this close to me. He held his hands to describe The closeness. It seemed for a moment He could almost touch his friend, Could speak to him as he were there; Enkidu. Enkidu. But suddenly the silence Was deeper than before In a place where they had never been Together. He sat down on the ground and wept: Enkidu. Enkidu.”

— Epic of Gilgamesh, tr. Herbert Mason

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Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae in Medieval Sensibilities: A History of Emotions in the Middle Ages by Damien Boquet and Piroska Nagy (transl. Robert Shaw)