Persephone115

“Love,' she continued, 'is more potent and powerful - it gives pleasure, meaning. But it also dominated, weakens, is a beast greedy and selfish, requiring constant sacrifice. To love is to cede our own power, an act of surrender we cannot guarantee will be returned...”
― Sophie Keetch, Morgan Is My Name

“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Beauty exists everywhere in the world. Love resides in all of us. That' the point. I only... I only want to deepen that. Show that there can be-- that there should be-- substance in it all...
There is love in caring for the sick, the weak, the ugly. A wilting flower holds just as much splendor as one on the cusp of opening. People are so quick to idolize the fresh and the new. They fetishize it...Why should we celebrate one without the other?”
― Erin A. Craig, House of Roots and Ruin

“Then he kissed me, and I kissed him, deeply, fervently, endless, until we were all there was.”
― Sophie Keetch, Morgan Is My Name