tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.

_{Marina Abramović & Ulay: Breathing In, Breathing Out (1977); Reaction in Time (1977); The Artist is Present (2010)}

“I was simmering, simmering, simmering. And he brought me to a boil.”

—Walt Whitman

“There is more reason in your body than in your best wisdom.”

—Nietzche

“You don’t know how to love the one you love until they disappear abruptly. Then you understand how thinly distanced from their suffering, how sparing of self you often were, only rarely unguarded of heart, working your networks of give-and-take.”

—Don DeLillo, from The Body Artist