Bryan

“Men come to sex hoping that it will provide them with all of the emotional satisfaction that would have come from love. Most men think that sex will provide them with a sense of being alive, connected, that sex will offer closeness, intimacy, pleasure. And more often than not sex simply does not deliver the goods. This fact does not lead men to cease obsessing about sex; it intensifies their lust and their longing.”
― bell hooks, The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

“To indoctrinate boys into the rules of patriarchy, we force them to feel pain and to deny their feelings.”
― bell hooks, The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

“We had the stars, you and I. And this is given once only.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“You misinterpret everything, even the silence.”
― Franz Kafka, The Castle