mrs. b's ms. l'engle

""It's a strange thing, how you can love somebody, how you can be all eaten up inside with needing them-- and they simply don't need you. That's all there is to it, and neither of you can do anything about it. And they'll be the same way with someone else, and someone else will be same way about you and it goes on and on--this desperate need-- and only once in a rare million do the same two people need each other." Justin to Katherine - I hope Ms. L'Engle will allow Katherine to refute this notion before the end of the book. I can choose to refute this notion in my own head and my own life.
(From The Small Rain, by Madeleine L'Engle, c 1945. This was her first published novel.)"

i saw that on mrs. b's blog and realized how true it is...