28 Quotes by Whitney Otto

Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.

All you have to go on is the faith of a kiss.

Read "The Story of O." Convince yourself that it was in fact written by a woman or someone who thinks like a woman.

Think about what binds you to your husband and he to you. Marvel at the strength of that bond, which is both abstract and concrete, spiritual and legal.

While she was in transit, being unattached was exhilarating, but the moment she stopped, so did the high.

The truly terrible thing about this life, was not knowing what you want, but only able to recognize what you do not want. You have to spend so much time and energy trying to find it out, time that other people spent in pursuing of their desires.

The worst dream of the night, when you are parted from someone you love and you do not know exactly where he is, but you know that he is in the presence of danger. You are tormented by a desire to keep the one you love safe.

That is the true challenge--to work within a narrow confine. To accept what you cannot have; that from which you cannot deviate.

No one knows how another person feels in private.