“Words. They touch you gently, sieve through your self and warm the heart within. You’d like to think that senseless words have no effect, words that you don’t want to hear will fade away even though they are spurted out, people who speak of praise and love will not touch you from within. But words, they either drop their petals gently and leave a lingering scent, or cut through your heart like a knife and leaves a wound to remind you. We’d like to think that we can control what we say, and what we feel. But words, they knock us hands down. There’s no way in escaping from their power. So always mean what you say, don’t play with words.”
“The only obsession everyone wants: Love. People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you’re whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You’re whole, and then you’re cracked open.”
—Philip Roth (via eletheowl)
