the greatest thing you'll ever learn,
is to love and be loved.
is to love and be loved.
POLLY WILLIAMS! <3
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 ( 8:15 PM )
No, they were not two people fused into one, she acknowledged. They were two people linked in a neat and arbitrary way, through rings and paper and ceremony and expectations and the presumption of a shared future rather than through messily engorged hearts. But, perhaps this merely meant that theirs was a more mature relationship, planned and measured against their ages and expectations. It was unrealistic to expect the dopamine swell of young love at their age.
- Stevie, in Polly William's 'The Egg Race'
Don't we all want to believe that for every romantic relationship we hurl ourselves into, we are linked to our signficant others through "messily engorged" hearts? Not just through vows and "I-love-you"s, or silly trinkets that mean so much and for which you cry when they are broken or lost.
Perhaps when you are linked in a "neat and arbitrary" manner, the relationship lacks a certain ardor and passion that might be evident or even excessive (unfortunately not to the point of being repulsive) in a relationship where two hearts are messily fused.
I love Polly Williams, one of my all-time favourite authors! =) Love the metaphors in her two books, The Rise and Fall of a Yummy Mummy, and The Egg Race.
:D
How she wished she was alone under this sky, staring up until her focus went funny and it felt as if she were hurtling into space.