Michael Cunningham, From “The Hours”

A concept.

If I was ever given a book of classic poetry with handwritten annotations I would simply die

Look at you comforting others with words you wish to hear.

William Wordsworth

Don't believe nostalgia, it blurs the edges of knives and makes them look like candles.

“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t.”

— Albert Camus

Dear scientists,

Please, for the love of God, please, make your papers more understandable.

Fuck you

Sincerely,

A college student on the verge of tears

Kostel svatého Jiří (St. George’s Church) also known as "ghost church" in Luková, Czech Republic

He asked me when I fell in love with him and I knew it sounded dramatic to say the moment I saw him, so I told him this story of my grandma who had Alzheimer's- she forgot her name and the words for fruit and food, she forgot her address and how to use the washroom, all her life lost to the disease. The only thing she remembered was her son's name and when that began to fade, the one thing she always remembered was that she loved him, even in illness, even in insanity. She saw this 6 foot 2 man with a scrubby beard and she didn't know him but she said she trusted him, she asked him to hold her hand when she died. When does memory end and love begin? All I know is- she loved him before she remembered him.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The world is a sphere of ice and our hands are made of fire

“Do you think the universe fights for souls to be together? Some things are too strange and strong to be coincidences.”

— Emery Allen