Wednesday, July 27, 2011

"Love is a debt. When the bill comes you repay in grief."
--Mary Doria Russell

6 comments:

  1. love is something you make room for you don't own it provide room for it to be included ps remember those os so important pearls daughter of julia

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  2. I prefer to think of love as a gift, as a positive. But there certainly are such things as karmic debts, which will need to be re-paid at some point. sp

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  3. this certainly can be the case, as we both know only too well. Sigh.

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  4. or gratitude. It's not all crap -- sometimes it's really just raw love.

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  5. Love never dies. It just goes underground.

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  6. I'm really not all that bitter. My friend Jeff yesterday reminded me of that quote, which I suggested he use as the introductory epigraph in his collection of poetry The Grief Pool. Which he did.

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