Adrienne RichI choose to love this time for oncewith all my intelligence-from "Splittings
About This Quote
The book "Splittings" by Aurore de Borchgrave and Leila Al-Shahi is a collection of letters between two women. While the book is about the relationship between these two women, it is also about life and death and what we do with our time. It is a story of love and loss. It is a story about how we make our decisions in the face of death.
It is a story about how we learn to love and how we live. It is a story about learning to live again after the unthinkable has happened to us.
Source: The Dream Of A Common Language
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