Finally, In A Low Whisper, He Said, I Think I Might Be A Terrible Person. For A Split Second I Believed

“Finally, in a low whisper, he said, ‘I think I might be a terrible person.’ For a split second I believed him — I thought he was about to confess a crime, maybe a murder. Then I realized that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before asking someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing.”

— Miranda July, The First Bad Man

“after all the terrible things I do how amazing it is to find forgiveness and love not even forgiveness since what is done is done and forgiveness isn’t love and love is love nothing can ever go wrong”

— Frank O’Hara, from “Poem [light clarity avocado salad in the morning]”

“How good it is to love live things, even when what they’ve done is terrible” — Ada Limón, from “The Long Ride”

“Strange how tightly one’s body could be held, how close to somebody else’s heart, and yet one wasn’t anywhere near the holder. They locked you up in prisons that way, holding your body tight and thinking they had got you, and all the while your mind–you–was as free as the wind and the sunlight.”

— Vera by Elizabeth von Arnim

sometimes, when a lesson is learned, the vehicle used to teach said lesson has no place left in our lives. for not only is it a vibrational tie to the past, but a barrier to seeing the future. often the last hurdle we must face is breaking our attachment to what we thought held us up, so we can realise it was in us all along.

To truly love another person is to accept the work of loving them is worth the pain of losing them.

THE HAUNTING OF BLY MANOR (2020)

Maurice (1987)