[I]nterpersonal love as a kind of “pure form” of resonant relationship in which the subject turns his or her entire mode of existence into a response to the other person, so that their relationship, as Rainer Maria Rilke writes, becomes like “a bow’s stroke” that “draws one voice from two strings.”

— Hartmut Rosa, Resonance

I want to be seen fully

I want to be held well

“With you, intimacy colors my voice. Even ‘hello’ sounds like ‘come here’.”

— Warsan Shire