By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Context: Love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. If we reject it, we die of hunger, because we lack the courage to reach out a hand and pluck the fruit from the branches of the tree of life. We have to take love where we find it, even if it means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness.
The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us.
And to save us.
Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations (2006)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 233.
The Wild Ass’s Skin (1831), Part II: A Woman Without a Heart
Context: A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who is in love no longer belongs to himself, and may not take his own life. Love makes us almost sacred in our own eyes; it is the life of another that we revere within us; then and so begins for us the cruelest trouble of all.
“Why is it we don't always recognize the moment when love begins, but we always know when it ends?”
As Harris K. Telemacher in "L.A. Story" (1991)
2009, A New Beginning (June 2009)
Context: We have the power to make the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new beginning, keeping in mind what has been written.
