- “love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. it’s like a religion. it’s terrifying.” (richard siken)
- “i have a secret self. it glows with preciousness. i have learned to keep this secret, precious self to myself. let’s see where it shall lead me.” (virginia woolf)
- “maybe i live inside myself too much and maybe that is my greatest downfall.” (megan grant)
- “let me tell you what i do know: i am more than one thing, and not all of those things are good. the truth is complicated. it’s two-toned, multi-vocal, bittersweet. i used to think that if i dug deep enough to discover something sad and ugly, i’d know it was something true. now i’m trying to dig deeper.” (richard siken)
- “i am full of love for every one. and everything is soft and vague and very sad. it is sad, it is sad. but everything has meaning.” (virginia woolf)
- “i’m sure there are aspects of my personality buried within me that will surface as soon as i know i’m completely loved.” (jerzy kosiński)
- “although i can’t stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, i can be kinder to every living creature in my life.” (river phoenix)
- “i’ll rewrite this whole life and this time there’ll be so much love you won’t be able to see beyond it.” (warshan shire)
- “i’m learning to become all the space i need. i laughed today. for a second i was unhaunted. i was the sun, not light from some dead star. i was before. i was negative. but i’m not.i am a house swollen with the dead, but still home.” (danez smith)
- “as for gender i can’t explain it any more than a poem: there was an instinct, i followed it. a song. a bell. i saw deer tracks in the snow. little split hearts beckoned me across the lawn.” (oliver baez bendorf)
apr 15 2020 ∞
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