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“The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

“Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

“I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean?

It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is as though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly, she explains me to myself. LIke genius she is ignorant of what she does.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

“You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. It’s the playing that’s irresistible. Dicing from one year to the next with the things you love, what you risk reveals what you value.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

“Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog is never far away. Valiant because you know you would slay a dragon with a pocket knife if you had to.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

“I'm telling you stories. Trust me.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

“I wanted a little of that swagger that comes with being able to gaze at a far horizon through eyes of chipped granite and say with a slow, manly sniff, “Yeah, I’ve shit in the woods.”
― Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

“I was faced with lying, favoritism, unprofessional supervisors, and unwarranted stress. Worst of all, I began doubting myself and my worth due to my work environment”
― Jessica "DIXIE" Mills, Take a Thru-Hike: Dixie's How-To Guide for Hiking the Appalachian Trail

“So much of masculine identity is predicated on self-control and invulnerability. Yet I have also observed that these very restrictions lead many men to other venues of self-expression. In the absence of a more developed verbal narrative of the self, the body becomes a vital language, a conduit for emotional intimacy. While much has been written about the aggressive manifestations of male sexuality, it is not sufficiently appreciated that the erotic realm also offers men a restorative experience for their more tender side. The body is our original mother tongue, and for a lot of men it remains the only language for closeness that hasn’t been spoiled. Through sex, men can recapture the pure pleasure of connection without having to compress their hard-to-articulate needs into the prison of words.”
― Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence

“Every time he was called out, no matter the hour or the condition of the patient, he was there to answer the same implicit question: Should we spend coin at a hospital for this? Whether it was fever, injured leg, vomiting child, or anything, really, they just wanted to know if he could fix it without having to turn their life savings over to the medical bureaucracy.”
― Harry Connolly, One Man

“Playing Dungeons & Dragons in a group of two people is a peculiar, intimate experience,”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“If you spend your life wanting to be happy, by its very nature you’re constantly starting from a place of unhappy.”
― Gary John Bishop, Stop Doing That Sh*t: End Self-Sabotage and Demand Your Life Back