At this point in my life / I'd like to live as if only love mattered / as if redemption was in sight ...

... as if the search to live honestly / is all that anyone needs : no matter if you find it. - tracy chapman

She believes that we are fallen creatures who once knew how to fly. She says that light burns in our bodies and threatens to dissolve us at any moment. How else can we account for so many of us who disappear?
- jeanette winterson, sexing the cherry

I think it is so that those most in need of change choose to fall in love and then throw up their hands and blame it all on fate.

I may be cynical when I say that very rarely is the beloved more than a shaping spirit for the lover's dreams. And perhaps such a thing is enough. To be a muse may be enough. The pain is when the dreams change, as they do, as they must. Suddenly the enchanted city fades and you are left alone again in the windy desert. As for your beloved, she didn't understand you. The truth is, you never understood yourself.