No pressure, no diamonds
“Nobody looks good in their darkest hours. But it’s those hours that make us what we are.”
— Karen Marie Moning, Faefever
you promised me the world
and left it shattered
“You’ve got to find yourself first. Everything else’ll follow.”
— Charles de Lint
“Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.”
— LEO TOLSTOI, War and Peace
i can feel the waves crushing through my body
happiness
sadness
back and forth
they break, i dont
“I crave a love so deep that the ocean would be jealous.”
— Tahere Mafi
it felt like you threw me
so far from myself
i've been trying to find my way back ever since
Leila Chatti, “Tea”
“...Things I hold most dear: music, nature, poetry, solitude.”
Marina Tsvetaeva in a letter to Boris Pasternak
My alone feels so good. I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.
“Growing Around Grief”
Lois Tonkin, 1996