“If it’s true that you have to love yourself before you can love someone else, then I suppose a certain self-regard must’ve kept me above water during my decade of drowning alone. But I think that in my case it was the other way – that I learned to love myself because someone else finally loved me. Seeing myself whole in another man’s eyes, deeper than any mirror, and neither of us looking away because there’s so much lost time to make up for.”
