on love

"I, who have seen you amid the primal things, Was angry when they spoke your name In ordinary places." —Ezra Pound

"One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do." —Douglas Coupland

"Lately I’ve been thinking about who I want to love, and how I want to love, and why I want to love the way I want to love, and what I need to learn to love that way, and who I need to become to become the kind of love I want to be ... and when I break it all down, when I whittle it into a single breath, it essentially comes out like this: Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe." —Andrea Gibson