After Their Encounter

“After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, 

there would always be a secret bond between them---

not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.”

~ Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

If We Can't Repair Things

“If we can’t repair things with the Romans—

well, the two sets of demigods have never gotten along.

That’s why the gods kept us separate.

I don’t know if we could ever belong there.”

Percy didn’t want to argue, but he couldn’t let go of the hope.

It felt important—

not just for him, but for all the other demigods.

It had to be possible to belong in two different worlds at once.

After all, that’s what being a demigod was all about—

not quite belonging in the mortal world or on Mount Olympus,

but trying to make peace with both sides of their nature.”

~ Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

A Person Shows Signs

A person shows signs of clutching on too fast, 

of being needy, of not hearing the word "no," 

of jealousy, of guarding you and your freedom. 

But the signs can be so small they skitter right past you. 

Sometimes they dance past, looking satiny, 

something you should applaud. 

Someone's jealousy can make you feel good. 

Special. But it's not even about you. 

It's about a hand that is already gripping. 

It's about their need, circling around your throat”

~ Deb Caletti, Stay

Relationships

“Relationships are never about power, 

and one way to avoid the will to power 

is to choose to limit oneself - to serve.”

~ Wm. Paul Young, The Shack

You Will Have

“You will have five hundred million little bells, 

and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water...”

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince: Library Edition

In Love

“In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs”

~ François Truffaut

She Was Still Under The Spell

“She was still under the spell of her infatuation.

She had tried to forget him, 

realizing the inutility of remembering. 

But the thought of him was like an obsession, 

ever pressing itself upon her. 

It was not that she dwelt upon details of their acquaintance,

 or recalled in any special or peculiar way his personality; 

it was his being, his existence, which dominated her thought, 

fading sometimes as if it would melt into the mist of the forgotten, 

reviving again with an intensity which filled her 

with an incomprehensible longing.”

~ Kate Chopin, The Awakening

There's Never A Reason

“There's never a reason to trust someone.

If there's a reason, then it's not trust.”

~ Gerald Morris, The Quest of the Fair Unknown

Asking For Help

“Asking for help with shame says:

You have the power over me.

Asking with condescension says:

I have the power over you.

But asking for help with gratitude says:

We have the power to help each other.”

~ Amanda Palmer, 

The Art of Asking; 

or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

To Be Human

“To be human is to be broken 

and broken is its own kind of beautiful.”

~ Robert M Drake

I Had To Learn

“I had to learn to live without you 

and I couldn't make sense of it, 

because I left so much of me inside of you.”

~ Robert M Drake

Never Knew

“Never knew what a friendship was, 

Never knew how to really love, 

You can't be what I need you to, 

& I don't know why I fuck with you.”

~ Erykah Badu

In Any Relationship

“In any relationship in which two people become one, 

the end result is two half people.”

~ Wayne W. Dyer

Mentally

“Mentally, I was a slut. 

Physically, I was terrified of intimacy. 

Spiritually, I didn’t like men.

I was confused.”

~ Jasmine Mas, Psycho Devils