I stood in bars, clothed but naked, looking from their eyes to my feet and back again. Still there was the longing to contend with: the heavy, bloody, chemical urge to consume another body and spit out its bones in a new child. How do you make a stranger so intimate when they could so easily destroy you? Nadifa Mohamed
About This Quote

In this quote, H.P. Lovecraft is talking about the loneliness of a soul that has alienated themselves from the human race and their ability to become one with another person. When we fall in love, we don’t see the people we love as strangers; they become part of our lives and we can’t wait to spend time with them. This quote is very similar to the idea that we only know how to make love if we have been hurt by it.

We can’t truly understand love until we have been hurt by it. Therefore, the best way to learn about love is through its opposite: hate

Source: Reader, I Married Him: Stories Inspired By Jane Eyre

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