Michael Ondaatje
I needed to think backwards for a while. Thinking backwards I could remember the comfort of being curious and alone. — Michael Ondaatje, The Cat’s Table. (Jonathan Cape; 1st edition August 1, 2011)
Category: Relationships
Shannon L. Alder
It is better to be alone than to become a person that loses his soul to the fear of loneliness. ― Shannon L. Alder
Erich Fromm
Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a “standing in,” not a “falling for.” — Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving. (Harper Perennial Modern Classics; 15 Anv edition November 21, 2006) Originally published 1956.
Shannon L. Alder
Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope. ― Shannon L. Alder
Anton Chekhov
…and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us from loving was. I understood that when you love you must either, in your reasonings about that love, start from what is highest, from what is more important than happiness or unhappiness, sin… Continue reading Anton Chekhov
David Levithan
sonnet, n. (NOTE ON THE LEAP: How rough and worn the weight of flight — the soul, when gathered, forms its own twinned claw and wing, each severed arc, the nape — all grown inside the body, left. Alone with loss, life rises: emblazoned air, trembling star of made faith. The fall that forms in… Continue reading David Levithan
Suzanne Finnamore
Much like trains in India, grief is a circular, irrational process with no discernible rhythm or timetable. Here it comes, there it goes. ― Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce. (Dutton Adult April 17, 2008)
