Yet each man kills the thing he lovesBy each let this be heardSome do it with a bitter lookSome with a flattering wordThe coward does it with a kissThe brave man with a sword

The heart is the toughest part of the body. Tenderness is in the hands.

Ive been in love before its like a narcotic. At first it brings the euphoria of complete surrender. The next day you want more. Youre not addicted yet but you like the sensation and you think you can still control things.You think about the person you love for two minutes then forget them for three hours. But then you get used to that person and you begin to be completely dependent on them. Now you think about him for three hours and forget him for two minutes. If hes not there you feel like an addict who cant get a fix. And just as addicts steal and humiliate themselves to get what they need youre willing to do anything for love.- By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Id learned that some things are best kept secret.

Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows. Man lies in the womans womb only to gather strength he nourishes himself from this fusion and then he rises and goes into the world into his work into battle into art. He is not lonely. He is busy. The memory of the swim in amniotic fluid gives him energy completion. Woman may be busy too but she feels empty. Sensuality for her is not only a wave of pleasure in which she is bathed and a charge of electric joy at contact with another. When man lies in her womb she is fulfilled each act of love a taking of man within her an act of birth and rebirth of child rearing and man bearing. Man lies in her womb and is reborn each time anew with a desire to act to be. But for woman the climax is not in the birth but in the moment man rests inside of her.

I was blind and heart broken and didnt want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted I have wonderful news And I was like I dont really want to hear wonderful news right now and Gus said This is wonderful news you want to hear and I asked him Fine what is it and he said You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet

Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time even when theyre not. When two bodies meet it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next or--such is the pleasure they experience--they may never finish it. No eleven minutes for them.

No Dimitri interrupted gently. He moved his face toward mine our foreheads nearly touching. It wont happen to you. Youre too strong. Youll fight it just like you did thistime.I only did because you were here. He wrapped his arms around me and I buried my face in his chest. I cant do it by myself I whispered.You can he said. There was a tremulous note in his voice. Youre strongyoure so so strong. Its why I love you.

Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we cant strike them all by ourselves

The damage was permanent there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.