"In my community of Holocaust survivors, there were two groups; those who didn't die and those who came back to life.

And those who didn't die lived often very tethered to the ground, could not experience pleasure, could not trust, because when you're vigilant, worried, anxious, and insecure, you can't lift your head to go and take off in space and be playful and safe and imaginative.

Those who came back to life were those who understood the erotic as an antidote to death. They knew how to keep themselves alive." - Esther Perel

"A crisis of desire is often a crisis of imagination." - Esther Perel