LOVE is a good place to BEGIN and a tragic place to END

{Image in Public Domain}

Khalil Gibran actually appears at the end of my soon-to-be released audiobook,  The Not-So-Innocents Abroad

 In my horror anthology,

Silhouettes in the Key of Scream,

 I use a quote of his to lead off one of the stories.  

I recently realized with a start that Khalil Gibran's thoughts 

on the uncertainties of love run through three of those tales of horror.

“Think not you can direct 

the course of love, for love, 

if it finds you worthy, 

directs your course.”

{Self-Portrait in Public Domain}

He wrote of the precarious balance between intimacy and independence in healthy relationships.

(And how many of those have 

you seen in your own life?)

“Love one another but make not a bond of love: 

let it rather be a moving sea 

between the shores of your souls.”

HOW DO YOU DELINEATE 

LOVE AND INDEPENDENCE

IN YOUR STORIES?