“I always think it’s a good sign when a man likes cats. It shows he doesn’t feel the need to be in constant control of things.”
— Anne Tyler, Clock Dance
May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude
الفلاسفة والحب - من سقراط إلى سيمون دي بوفوار
"For ever shall we be in quest of the shores, that we may sing and be heard. But what of the wave that breaks where no ear shall hear? It is the unheard in us that nurses our deeper sorrow. Yet it is also the unheard which carves our soul to form and fashion our destiny"
Khalil Gibran, The Garden of The Prophet
obsessed where stories where it is like. the mistakes are unfixable and the worst thing that could happen happened and nothing can go back to how it was. but there was still love in this and love will continue after this and love endures always.
Katherine Mansfield, in a letter to Dorothy Brett, dated 14 August 1918
Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin
wouldn’t it be nice if we were older then we wouldn’t have to wait so long?and wouldn’t it be nice to live together in the kind of world where we belong? you know it’s gonna make it that much better, when we can say goodnight and stay together. wouldn’t it be nice if we could wake up in the morning when the day is new? and after having spent the day together hold each other close the whole night through?
Megan Nolan, from her novel titled "Acts of Desperation," originally published in March 2021
"The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)