- "It was rather like looking down from a high hill onto a rich, lovely plain..." C. S. Lewis
- "You've always looked beautiful. But you look the most beautiful ever! Like my heart went bfffph! Seriously. You look SO beautiful." A. G.
- "The best is perhaps what we understand least."
- “You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you won’t discover this until you are willing to stop banging your head against the wall of shaming and caging and fearing yourself.”
- “Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that’s all. You can’t see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.”
- "Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?" Louis XIV
- “A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him for her own, Pressed her body to his body, Laughed; and plunging down, Forgot in cruel happiness, That even lovers drown…” William Butler Yeats
- "December arrived like the last word whispered to a sea of groaning ice by the frozen lips of a dying sailor. She kissed my mouth and I smiled." MJ Létourneau
- "One summer morning at sunrise a long time ago / I met a little girl with a book under her arm. / I asked her why she was out so early and / she answered that there were too many books and / far too little time. And there she was absolutely right." Tove Jansson
- "I want to bottle the sound of rain and bury it beneath my fourth vertebrae, so that when you trail your nose along my spine and kiss a path along it, you will find it there, like a treasure, and know that I was thinking of you." MJ Létourneau
- "Sometimes I look at myself and see myself as I feel I am. The image I see fitting perfectly, like a puzzle piece, with the inside of me. But sometimes I see myself for where I really am in the stretch of Time between my birth and my death. It feels discordant and alien. I do not know how to call myself woman. I do not know how to be a girl." MJ Létourneau
- "As long as I can remember, when I was a little kid I have always been conscious that we are here for a limited period. Not really fearing death at all, but as a little boy I did resent it. I thought it was unfair because there are so many things to do and adventures to have. And as an adult you realise you can never read all the good books. You can’t even see all the good plays or movies or travel to all the places you want to see. It’s impossible. I don’t resent my mortality any more; I’m just conscious of it. Life is short and there’s a fine line, you know. You can be too frantic and desperate, but you can also be too lazy." Viggo Mortenson
- "Warm summer rain: / When a heavy drop falls / the whole leaf quivers. / So my heart quivers / each time your name falls on it." Erich Fried
- "She held her grief behind her eyes like an ocean & when she leaned forward into the day it spilled onto the floor & she wiped at it quickly with her foot & pretended no one had seen." Brian Andreas
- "Maybe you’ll never notice / because you are fireworks and I am pale skies and you are / trumpets and claxons / while I am a single harp string and I have / shy eyes and quiet hands / and where you are the chorus and the thunder of waves / I am only a breeze / ruffling the grass / in the faint and milky dawn / but / I love you / more than you know." Elle Battung
- “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.” C.S. Lewis
- “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.” C.S. Lewis
- “I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.” C.S. Lewis
- “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” C.S. Lewis
- "All night I slept and dreamed that I was running. There was a mountain road and flowers so beautiful I wanted to pick them all and press them into a book. That way I could keep them and they wouldn't change. I think you were running with me." Susan Musgrave
- "In this fearsome pilgrimage unearth a crusader’s heart."
- "The immortal spirit of one happy day"
- “The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.” A Dillard
- “I have found the one my soul loves.”
- “She’s never where she is. She’s only inside her head.” Janet Fitch
- “When I saw you I fell in love. And you smiled, because you knew.” Arrigo Boito
- “The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.” Chuck Palahniuk
- “Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.” William Gibson
- “Yes, tears can be thoughts. Why not?” Louise Erdrich
- “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the ocean in an entire drop.” Rumi
- “Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.” - Andrea Gibson
aug 11 2012 ∞
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