Sam

“Marriage gave you the truest insight into who a person was. You were surrounded by their every move, their reactions, their habits, their flaws, and you grew to understand them, accept them, or fight against them.”
― Christy Aldridge, These Ghosts Bleed

“Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

“Just because the eyes are the windows to our soul doesn't mean the people who stare into them love what they see. Sometimes, they see something they want to own or break, something inside the irises they want to steal for themselves, to take the light from your gaze until they see nothing but their own reflections.”
― Christy Aldridge, These Ghosts Bleed

“I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake and pierce me, will weaken me, and make me tremble and soften and melt.”
― Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus