"We love, says Plato, that in which we are defective; when we see our magical Self in the mirror of another, we pursue it with desperate cries — Stop! I must possess you! — but if it obligingly stops and turns, how on earth can one then possess it?"
—
Joanna Russ, The Female Man
Horrifying transphobia and misogyny in this book, as it turns out, but this particular quote still speaks to me.
