“I was afraid to make love to her without..."

“I was afraid to make love to her without the conversations and laughter from the false universe playing in our ears, because I didn’t want to get to know her very well, and didn’t want to be bridging any silences with our eyes.” Denis Johnson

With love comes intimacy. Knowing a person in and out. No secrets between two bodies. People can sometimes be afraid of this. They fear someone knowing the absolute truth about them and so they don’t love. Any guy can say they slept with a girl but sex isn’t love. Here Johnson is saying he is afraid of loving because he doesn’t want that person to know everything about him and in return he doesn’t want to know everything about someone else. Why be afraid? If you don’t love yourself how can you expect someone to love you.

-Katherine J