It may be that we have become more interesting to each other at the expense of trust.
Anaïs Nin, Henry and June
So often a metaphor arrives in the physical world with violence.
- Heather Christle, The Crying Book
I recognize you by the smell of rain
- Agata Tuszyńska, The Third Shore tr. Regina Grol
I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop, and then a moment later you are at it again with a knife, like a surgeon.
Anaïs Nin, Henry and June
her eyes are pure stars, and her fingers, if they touch you, freeze you to the bone.
- Virginia Woolf, Orlando
Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
Anaïs Nin, Henry and June
I am only as much as I'm not.
Dagna Ślepowrońska, tr. Regina Grol
Nothing, however, can be more arrogant, though nothing is commoner than to assume that of Gods there is only one, and of religions none but the speaker’s.
- Virginia Woolf, Orlando
I have dreamed of you so much that you are no longer real.
- Robert Desnos
'Come close to me, come closer. I promise it will be beautiful.'
Anaïs Nin, Henry and June