• "Youth is a dream where I go every night and wake with just this little jumping bunch of arteries in my hand." – Anne Carson
• "And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet." – Shel Silverstein
• "You wear all one color on the outside, swirl with every color on the inside." — Jenny Slate
• "I want to sleep until I'm someone else." — Chelsea Hodson
• "Love has moved me and makes me speak." — Dante Alighieri
• "And the heart is hard to translate, it has a language of its own." — Florence Welch
• "The thoughts raced like water, and she was borne on the current." — Katherine Arden
• "And I know that I am their daughter. And I know that they love me, despite the damage." — Florence Welch
• "I will be no one's bride, neither of man nor of God." — Katherine Arden
• "She had the sea within her soul, continuously." — Salvatore Quasimodo
• "I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws." — Emil Cioran
• "The cure for anything is salt water. Sweat, tears, or the ocean." — Isak Dinesen
• "And I? I drink, I burn, I gather dreams." — Helene Cixous
• "She closes her eyes and dreams. She unfolds. She is insignificant and larger than life.” — Odysseus Elytis
• "I am never stagnant; I rise from my worst disasters, I turn, I change." — Virginia Woolf
• "The question drowned in the pool in my mouth. I swallowed, but another wave washed over my tongue." — Merlinda Bobis
• "I just want to love you in my own language." — alt-J

⤷ archived — words i resonate with from 2016 to 2017