“...the very task of love and of language
is to give one and the same phrase
inflections which will forever be new.”

Roland Barthes




Here, a list of “I love you’s” and their equivalents:

“I love you
I love to be around you
when we are together my brain flushes
with the right kind of chemicals.
The happy ones.

I love you
or

you make me happy
when skies are gray.

You validate me.

You give weight to my being.

You justify some of what I do.

I want you.

I need you.

You deserve the best parts of me.







I love you,
or,

I am lying to save our skin
I want you here
I desire you
I am sorry about what this means.





I love you,
or,

no matter what you choose
this feeling will remain the same.







I love you,
or,

we are supposed to love eachother
and I am obliged to say so.







I love you,
or,

I’m never letting you go.







I love you,
or,

you can take this.












I love you,
or,

please smile.




I love you,
or,

why the fuck are you so sad?






I love you,
or,

please don’t go.”











































(a selection of images from my sisters wedding, posted here on the occassion of her coming divorce)