My mom has this thing that she says: “Love your guts.”
It’s the verbal expression of those moments when emphatic love flares up so brightly that you want to force someone between your ribs and squeeze them into your chest cavity to get them just that much closer to your beating heart.
It sounds a little gory, maybe even a little morbid. But isn’t that just like love?
September 26, 2008 at 1:17 PM
I think your mom is brilliant. I know exactly what that kind of desperate, ferocious love feels like. I’m going to use this phrase from now on – with all due credit to your mom.
Thanks as always for posting.