It’s not a level playing ground for either of us, for the men or the women. This is the most challenging activity that humans get into: love. We have the sense that we can’t live without love. So we’re invited into this arena which is a very dangerous arena where the possibilities for humiliation and failure are ample. There’s no fixed lesson that one can learn about the thing, because the heart is always opening and closing. It’s always softening and hardening. […] Most men have a woman in their heart, most women have a man in their heart. Most of us cherish some sort of dream of surrender.

— Leonard Cohen

And so Leonard Cohen manages to articulate my thoughts far more beautifully than I have ever managed. This is why I read.