“In Certain Areas Of My Life, I Actively Seek Out Solitude. Especially For Someone In My Line Of Work,

“She didn’t need to be saved. She needed to be found and appreciated for exactly who she was.”

— j. iron word

“It is well known that those in the grip of heavy enchantments can be wakened only by a lover’s touch. Those who seem dead, who are already returning to the earth, can be restored to life, quickened again by one who is warm. Then, it being night, and the twin stars of Castor and Pollux just visible in the sky, I spoke of that tragedy, of two brothers whose love we might find unnatural, so stricken in grief when one was killed that the other, begging for his life again, accepted instead that for half the year one might live, and for the rest of the year the other, but never the two together. So it is for us, who while on earth in these suits of lead sense the presence of one we love, not far away but too far to touch.”

— Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry

“Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different?”

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In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.

Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

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“Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink the wild air.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

— Juansen Dizon

Oscar Wilde, from At Verona

“…And if we won’t burn together, I’ll burn alone.”

— Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction

"Such aching mystery hides, in your stardust-glimmer eyes."

~John Mark Green // Taste the Wild Wonder