"There is the thrill of loving for a little while—a night, a week, a month, even a year—and then loving stops, just like that, in the coldest, blankest way, a screen going snowy at the end of a movie. There is no yelling, only silence—the kind in a Carole King song: the phone that doesn’t ring, or the words you didn’t say that you think of on the staircase spiraling down once the door is locked behind, or maybe even months later."
- Elizabeth Wurtzel
"Husbands and wives should have separate interests, cultivate different sets of friends and not impose on the other. You can’t spend a lifetime breathing down each other’s necks. We are very, very different people and yet somehow we fed off those varied differences and instead of separating us, it has made the whole bond a lot stronger."
- Paul Newman
Love is Easy. Relationships are Hard.
“If the timing is right. If the communication is clear. If the desires are the same. If the geography can be condensed. If the eating habits are compatible. If the sleep schedule can be arranged. If the friends are not trifling. If the exes are not crazy. If the toilet bowl stays scrubbed. If the taxes are paid. If the credit isn’t shot. If the papers are legit. If the addictions are handled. If the life dreams are pursued. If the phone can be picked up. If the families are friendly enough. If the jealousy can be reigned in. If the hygiene is on point. If the changes can be trusted. If the punches aren’t thrown. If the insults are neutralized. If the jobs stay steady. If the passion reinvigorates itself. If the religious practices don’t desecrate each other. If the lies recede to truth. If the truth stays off Facebook…and Twitter…and Tumblr. If the Skype doesn’t malfunction. If the childhood trauma heals. If the teenage trauma heals. If the young adult trauma heals. If the middle-aged trauma heals. If the sociopolitical worlds settle. If the grudges are finally let go…
If we can do it…just this one time…for the love.”
—Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai
(Source: yellowgurl.com)
Bad for Business: Dark Sonnet
I don’t think that I’ve been in love as such,
Although I liked a few folk pretty well.
Love must be vaster than my smiles or touch,
For brave men died and empires rose and fell
For love: girls followed boys to foreign lands
And men have followed women into Hell.
In plays and poems someone…
"Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new."
- Ursula K. Le Guin
