How Could You Love Us Being Together?

“How could you love us being together?" he asked me. 

"We are nothing alike and we are not meant for each other 

and we drive each other crazy, you love that? How can you love that?" 

So I told him "I know that we're not meant for each other, 

that we drive each other crazy, and that we are so different. 

But that's us. That's what we have; a wild nonsense. 

We are not good together, but together we are bad for each other. 

I love us together this way just like this. 

Because even if it's no good,

 it's what we have!

 It's us.”

~ C. JoyBell C.

Intimacy

“Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. 

We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. 

Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. 

Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us? 

The one thing we can be certain of is that 

if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, 

we will not come out unaffected.”

~ Rollo May, The Courage to Create

Sometimes

“Sometimes to self-discover you must self-destruct.”

~ Robert M. Drake

I Believe With All My Heart

“I believe with all my heart that the cliches are true, 

that we are our own best friends and best company, 

and that if you're not right for yourself, 

it's impossible to be right for anyone.”

~ Rachel Machacek, The Science of Single: 

One Woman's Grand Experiment in Modern Dating, 

Creating Chemistry, and Finding Love

He Knew Me

“He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: 

the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams.”

~ Justina Chen Headley