“What I love is always being born. What I love is beginning always.”
— Odysseus Elytis, from “Sun the First,” Selected Poems, transl. Edmund Keeley (Anvil Poetry Press, 1981)
“‘Remember this when you are queen,’ he whispered hoarsely. ‘I moved the earth and the water for you.’”— Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente
“I have such strong tendencies to abandon myself to someone with whom I’m in love—to want to give up everything, to be possessed totally as well as to possess totally.”— Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964 - 1980
“‘I’m your girl,’ she said in the dark. ‘Your girl. No matter what I’m always your girl.’”— Ernest Hemingway, The Garden Of Eden (via love-diaries)
