In the high latitude of the heart, love is not a soft thing. It is an Arctic tern—a creature of fragile bone and impossible endurance, navigating a world where the horizon is a jagged line of ice and the sun is a distant, pale eye. The Great Migration
: Standing guard over a nest in a landscape that "everyone else turns away from". Love Is A Bird Arctic
: Learning to "bulk up" against the winter, finding warmth where the "trees grow stunted". In the high latitude of the heart, love is not a soft thing