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

• But if believing in god is human. If all I can do as a human is to believe... My god. My universe.
• "'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." - This is from a Merlin fanfic, but I can't find it again to link here, so I'm so sorry, person who wrote this and thank you.
• "I have a hole in my head / and it's shaped like a wolf / or anger / Teeth bared they look the same" - This is, and I kid you not, from a Rise of the Guardians fanfic.
• One for sorrow, Two for joy, Three for a girl, Four for a boy, Five for silver, Six for gold, Seven for a secret never to be told.
• "Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you ever stand in its way?" - David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing.
• "You want nothing but patience - or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope." - Technically this is from Sense and Sensibility, but I actually read it on Red, White and Royal Blue, sooooo.
• "One man made thing stood here— a shed, old and dilapidated. This little place went passed by and uncared for by the world, did not even exist to it. But it did exist. It did nothing but exist, a triangle amidst trumpets, an ant below swallowtails. It breathed and hummed and loved. It welcomed all that came and said farewell to all that went, and could do no further." - This one makes me remember the beginning of The Haunting of Hill House, and it's from Ostellar's Shen-shixiong the Friendly Ghost.