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“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“We drove to the hotel and said goodbye. How hypocritical to go upstairs with a man you don't want to fuck, leave the one you do sitting there alone, and then, in a state of great excitement, fuck the one you don't want to fuck while pretending he's the one you do. That's called fidelity. That's called monogamy. That's called civilization and its discontents.”
― Erica Jong, Fear of Flying

“No group-living nonhuman primate is monogamous, and adultery has been documented in every human culture studied- including those in which fornicators are routinely stoned to death. In light of all of this bloody retribution, it's hard to see how monogamy comes "naturally" to our species. Why would so many risk their reputations, families, careers- even presidential legacies- for something that runs against human nature? Were monogamy an ancient, evolved trait characteristic of our species, as the standard narrative insists, these ubiquitous transgressions would be infrequent and such horrible enforcement unnecessary.
No creature needs to be threatened with death to act in accord with its own nature.”
― Christopher Ryan , Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality

“I wait for the morning of my tears.”
― Goethe Johann-Wolfga

“We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“Life is a sweet mistake that happened when the world wasn't looking.”
― Scott Bradfield, The People Who Watched Her Pass By

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“It was at that age
that poetry came in search of me.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams

“I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“No, emptiness is not nothingness. Emptiness is a type of existence. You must use this existential emptiness to fill yourself.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

“In the crooks of your body, I find my religon.”
― Sappho

“How can something be there, and then not be there? How do we forgive ourselves for all the things we did not become?”
― Doc Luben, Love Letters or Suicide Notes