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.
• "It's curious, then, that when he looks up at the canopy of trees overhead, the leaves still rustle the same. The birds chirp the same, the horses clop the same. The world is crashing down around his ears and it doesn't know it."