Is it needy? It's not. We don't need each other. We just really, really enjoy each other. And we're good together. We're good people together. And I have the funniest feeling. I can really, truly touch this all, this happiness and the sadness too, I can trace all of it with my fingers. It isn't theoretical or distant. This feels like me. This is me. I love him, and, for the first time in a relationship, I also like me. Every time he says "I love you," I answer, "I believe you.

Emma Forrest

Stichwörter: love relationships



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And then, with the feather-green darkness pressed against the windows, he puts his filthy fingers on my scrubbed hope face and says, "If I kiss you, it's all over." And then he does. And then it is.

Emma Forrest

Stichwörter: love kissing romance sex



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People don't know. We don't know ourselves so we tell ourselves what we really know is other people. We could say the depth of pain we feel for the lovers who've left us is because we knew them so well.

Emma Forrest

Stichwörter: life pain love relationships heartbreak



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But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.

Emma Forrest

Stichwörter: life pain sorrow depression



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Men and the pursuit of them are strongly intertwined with my mental health. I would say, in my defensive defense, that the problem with being a serial monogamist is, there isn't anybody random or unimportant: everybody you sleep with really means something, which is to say each of them is on your public record. At some point I wake up thinking, Fuck this! I don't want another man in my bed ever again. What I really want is a cat.

Emma Forrest

Stichwörter: humor cats love men sex



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No one knows we're there, no one sees us. We never leave the room. I think about the secret voice you use when you make love. No one but that person will ever hear it. And here, we listen to each other, but we lock it in with touch, and the room vacuum seals it to stay fresh until we can breathe together again. When he breaks the silence it is to say, "I want you to know that, when you get pregnant, nothing is going to change except your dress size.

Emma Forrest

Stichwörter: love pregnancy love-making



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I want you to stay.
I never want there to be a time
when we don't share space.

Emma Forrest

Stichwörter: love romance



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The goal was to get sane, to get whole, to be complete enough to support someone else.

Emma Forrest

Stichwörter: depression



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I'm not crazy or dangerous,
just a bit eccentric and lonely.

Emma Forrest

Stichwörter: loneliness depression



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We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintentionally. It's a way of telling about ourselves in the hope of being recognized as what we'd like to be.

Emma Forrest

Stichwörter: life



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