grin and bear it
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It’s making me sad. How slowly I’m getting used to you not being around me anymore. How I forget the way you speak or the tone of your voice. The way you eat or the way you snicker. How your face shows everything that you feel. Even the way you smell. All of these things, these landmarks of you that I have learned to slowly live without. I’m afraid of something, and I happen to know what it is. You are beggining to become a dull ache in my heart. You’re there. You’re still there…but only a glimmer. But still it scares me, this knowledge that as surely I’ve come to love you, I’ve also slowly realized how much you’ve made me forget.
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”Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows. Man lies in the woman’s womb only to gather strength, he nourishes himself from this fusion, and then he rises and goes into the world, into his work, into battle, into art. He is not lonely. He is busy. The memory of the swim in amniotic fluid gives him energy, completion. Woman may be busy too, but she feels empty. Sensuality for her is not only a wave of pleasure in which she is bathed, and a charge of electric joy at contact with another. When man lies in her womb, she is fulfilled, each act of love a taking of man within her, an act of birth and rebirth, of child rearing and man bearing. Man lies in her womb and is reborn each time anew with a desire to act, to BE. But for woman, the climax is not in the birth, but in the moment man rests inside of her
Anaïs Nin (The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1) (via justbesplendid) (via quote-book)
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”Everything you do, you pay for. So if you’re going to kiss me, you’d best be prepared to bleed.
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”Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you’re not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever you want to. Every moment together is a choice.
Walter Kirn (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
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”I thought for so long I was untouchable.
I fell in love with you with no safety belt. I dived into loving you and promised to never look back. The day I realized that we couldn’t keep it together was the day I learned I wasn’t untouchable.
As much as it hurt to hit the ground, our love gave me the power to get up. The feeling you gave me of finally feeling human made me stronger than untouchable.
You may have left, but being able to finally feel my heart in my chest won’t.Boy Meets Love (via quote-book)
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