This is what I want, dammit!

"Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see each other whole against the sky."
-- Rainer Rilke

&

"I loved her with a love thirsty and desperate. I felt that we two might commit some act so atrocious that the world, seeing us, would find it irresistible." -- Gene Wolfe, "The Shadow of the Torturer"

le *sigh*

~*~*~*~

And for the more jaded:

"Love is sentimental measles."

or

"Love is in the offing." -- The Homicidal Maniac


And for the addict in us all:

"Love is dope, not chicken soup. I mean, love is something to be passed
around freely, not spooned down someone's throat for their own good by a
Jewish mother who cooked it all by herself."

~*~*~*~

word.

(The above was found via Sr. simplycosmic's Clocky's Wisdom page. Many thanks to him for the late-night entertainment and co.~8D)