I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a deep desire for intimacy and connection with another person.
In this quote, Hisham Matar uses vivid imagery to convey an intense longing for emotional and physical closeness. The speaker's wish to 'wear' the other person like clothing signifies a profound desire to become one with them, to envelop and be enveloped by their essence, indicating the depth of love and connection one can feel towards a significant other.
In practice
This quote could be used in a wedding speech to express deep love.
Dreams have consequences. There is no turning back. A revolution is not a painless march to the gates of freedom and justice. It is a struggle between rage and hope, between the temptation to destroy and the desire to build. Its temperament is desperate. It is a tormented response to the past, to all that has happened, the recalled and unrecalled injustices - for the memory of a revolution reaches much further back than the memory of its protagonists.
My own observation is: lovers don't surrender to each other, they surrender to something unknown that exists between them. They surrender to love - call it the 'god of love' - they both surrender to the god of love. Hence nobody's ego is fulfilled by your surrender; both the egos disappear in love.
Perhaps you can feel if you can’t hear,” was her fancy. “Perhaps kind thoughts reach people somehow, even through windows and doors and walls. Perhaps you feel a little warm and comforted, and don’t know why, when I am standing here in the cold and hoping you will get well and happy again.
I'm in love with language again because Luke B. Goebel is not afraid to take us back through the gullet of loss into the chaos of words. Someone burns a manuscript in Texas; someone's speed sets a life on fire; a heart is beaten nearly to death, the road itself is the trip, a man is decreated back to his animal past--better, beyond ego, beautiful, and look: there's an American dreamscape left. There's a reason to go on.
Everything hurts, every single thing including the weight of him and I'm crying because it hurts and he's telling me he's sorry over and over again, and I figure somewhere down the track we'll work out the right way of doing this but I don't want to let go, because tonight I'm not looking for anything more than being a part of him. Because being a part of him isn't just anything. It's kind of everything.
One cannot give what he does not possess. To give love you must possess love. To love others you must love yourself.
What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
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