The things that inspire me and live rent-free in my mind...

• "'Will you speak to us of love?' Almitra asks, like a child. They care nothing of the dying sun, the burnt earth, their inevitable mortality. Tell us a story about love, they say. And give it a happy ending." - Starlingthefool, Fundamental Imperfection.
• I once read that learning to live was simply just making it a habit.
• It is a ruin to love someone like this, so wholly and without reason.
• "Not everything had gone to plan, but we made the best of what we had, you know?" - Bastille, Glory.
• "'Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased,' Polo said. 'Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak of it, or perhaps, speaking of other cities, I have already lost it, little by little.'" ― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities.
• "And you have fixed my life — however short. You did not light me: I was always a mad comet, but you have fixed me. I spun round you a satellite for a month, but I shall swing out soon, a dark star in the orbit where you will blaze." ― Wilfred Owen, Selected Letters.
• "I'm rich in mountains and rivers of this world, but if you think about it, that's hardly worth relishing: just an old pile of pebbles and some wild creeks. There's probably only this one thing about me that's worth a little something: my heart. You want it? Take it." - Priest, Zhenhun.