“The way to turn an ex-lover into a friend is to never stop loving them, to know that when one phase of a relationship ends it can transform into something else. It is to acknowledge that love is both a constant and a variable at the same time.” Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, 301.

Those lovers are mostly gone. My hands remain–: like altars.

∆ Natalie Diaz, from The Hand Has Twenty-Seven Bones — : These Hands If Not Gods

And we must fiercely resist the idea that true love must mean conflict-free love; that the course of true love is smooth. It’s not. The course of true love is rocky and bumpy at the best of times. That’s the best we can manage, as the creatures we are. It’s no fault of mine or no fault of yours; it’s to do with being human. And the more generous we can be towards that flawed humanity, the better chance we’ll have of doing the true hard work of love.

Everybody in their lives is really waiting for people to ask them questions, so that they can be truthful about who they are and how they became what they are.

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