Quando io e te entriamo in contatto, da questo nasce il cuore.
Non è dentro al corpo.
Quando pensiamo a qualcosa,
Quando pensiamo a qualcuno...
È lì che nasce il cuore.
“I am aware, sure, I am aware. Catastrophically aware.”
— Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
I and me are always too deep in conversation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
My dear love, my priceless joy, you haven’t forgotten me, have you?
— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra
— i love you much(most beautiful darling), E. E. Cummings
“Oh, won’t you be mine—again and again and again? No matter what happens I have always loved you so. And I love you still. Happily, happily foreverafterwards—the best we could.”
— Zelda Fitzgerald in a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, c. 1936
“Nowadays I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.”
— Zadie Smith, Changing My Mind