thetreasures:

“It’s Plato’s myth, not the culture’s, but everyone can relate to that myth. The heartbreak being, if you live in the real world, you know that one person cannot complete you, no matter how much you want it. And why do we want it? It brings up all these ideas about monogamy, sexuality, and gender, and the myth is great, because it includes every possible kind of attachment. But you never will, no matter how hard you hold onto someone, become one person. And is that useful to think about in the real world? Or, why do we need heaven? We’ll never know until it’s over. It’s like the yearning is more important than the possibility.”

– John Cameron Mitchell on the origin of love (x)