You must know, everyone knows in their minds that we only live once and then we die: like the grass dies, like the birds die, like the leaves die.

So it is the most difficult thing to hold another person, to fearlessly lay your heart beside their heart, to close your eyes and listen as they breath.

When you embrace another you risk everything in the bargain: The hidden dagger, the hidden glance; The grapple, the garrot, the dark, whispered lie.

We are such that we throw ourselves at the universe as it were our enemy, we kick against the world because it frightens...