Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
— Sarah Williams
Only reason I haven’t gone insane is because I romanticise everything.
it sucks right now for both of us but one day we will be swaying in each other’s arm as the homemade stew we are making for dinner bubbles on the stove, the scent of love and warmth fills our cozy cottage that looks just like something from a fairytale.
— Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War
I’m really bad at conversations sorry if I’ve ever talked to you
“I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have.”
— Holly Black; The Darkest Part of the Forest
“I am writing to reach you–even if each word I put down is one word further from where you are.”
— Ocean Vuong, from On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin, 2019)
I am looking neither respectfully nor disrespectfully. I gaze without recognition of your form, and without understanding.
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
— Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
“There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray