I disappear into the person I love. I am the permeable membrane. If I love you, you can have it all. My money, my time, my body, my dog, my dog’s money. I will assume your debts and project upon you all sorts of nifty qualities you’ve never actually cultivated in yourself. I will give you all this and more. Until I am so exhausted and depleted – the only way I can recover is by becoming infatuated with someone else.
Quotes
We all change…
…We all change when you think about it. We are all different people all through our lives and that’s okay, that’s good, you gotta keep moving so long as you remember all the people that you used to be. I will not forget one line of this, not one day, I swear…
– The Eleventh Doctor, Doctor Who
Desire
We are Desire in motion.
“In the language of Kabbalah, desire is referred to as a Vessel. A Vessel is like an empty cup that seeks to be filled. Unlike an empty cup, however, the Vessel of our desires is not anything physical.”
Excerpt From: Yehuda Berg. “The Power of Kabbalah.” iBooks. https://itun.es/us/e-X9y.l
Maturity
Maturity is the ability to live with the unresolved problems.
– My Therapist
The light that …
The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long – and you have burned so very, very brightly…
– Tyrell, Blade Runner (1982).
The Secret
Maybe that’s just what a relationship is. Constantly doing things you have absolutely no desire to do.
– Six Feet Under, Season 2, Episode 10
Back to the Garden
I think a soulmate is a person who makes you be the most you you can possibly be. Maybe your soulmate is the person who forces your soul to grow the most. Not all growth feels good.
– Six Feet Under, Season 2, Episode 7
The Will
Well, we’re all wounded. We carry our wounds around with us through life, and eventually they kill us. Things happen that leave a mark in space, in time. In us.
– Six Feet Under, Season 1, Episode 2
Hunting Season
If the right guy came along , I can totally fall in love again – and until then there’s nothing wrong with being a whore.
— Alex from Hunting Season, Season 1, Episode 1
Thanatophobia
That which does not kill us; makes us stranger.
– Trevor Goodchild, Aeon Flux, “Thanatophobia”
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