"My Soul Has Been So Fearful, So Violent: Forgive Its Brutality."

I reach for you even when you’re not there.

The purest form of love is consideration. When someone thinks about how things would make you feel. Pays attention to detail. Holds you in regard when making decisions that could affect you. In any bond, how much they care about you can be found in how much they consider you

Leila Chatti, “Tea”

“If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.”

— Nora Roberts

[Except for your eyes, / no blade can control me, / no sharpened knife.]

Vladimir Mayakovsky, Lilichka

“...Things I hold most dear: music, nature, poetry, solitude.”

Marina Tsvetaeva in a letter to Boris Pasternak

mom, your child reads crime and punishment for fun

And while I look in the sky so full of stars

i cry

and wonder when i will finaly see you again

“I am a different person to different people. Annoying to one. Talented to another. Quiet to a few. Unknown to a lot. But who am I, to me?”

— Unknown

“I know this transformation is painful, but you’re not falling apart; you’re just falling into something different, with a new capacity to be beautiful.”

— William C. Hannan