Well, let it pass; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Sensible Thing
I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
— Franz Kafka, from Letters to Milena
Margaret Atwood, from True Stories: Poems; "True Romances," originally published in 1981
The fact that music exists, makes life bearably worth living.
“And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.”
The pressing desire to be with someone when Fyodor Dostoevsky said, "I want to talk about everything with at least one person as I talk about things with myself."
‘Its a thorny journey ahead, and I am barefoot.’
“To remember everything”
What a blessing…and
Ohh! What a curse.
You are not understanding the silence;
and I'm out of words now.
I am not the person i was one book before.💫
They say 'follow your heart'; but which piece to follow, when your heart is in a million pieces.
If love was to be measured in water,
mine for you would create Tsunamis.
The.soulwhispers
And I'd happily drink it, even if it were poison that your hands poured.
The.soulwhispers
C.S. Lewis once wrote,
"I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief"
And I think we all needed to hear that.
‘I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. My attachments are always excessively strong.’
Jane Austen, “Northanger abbey”
“I felt him in everything. And what I felt was too deep.”
— Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary; 1939-1947
You drew stars around my scars, but now I'm bleedin'
Taylor Swift, "cardigan"
"Please don't ever become a stranger whose laugh I could recognise anywhere"
Taylor Swift, "New year's Day"
They asked me, "how much did you love him?"
Me- "Jus' not enough to make him stay."
"I knew that someday you would find me. I waited for you, calmly, with boundless impatience. Consume me."
~Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), Alain Resnais
"All these people think love's for show
But I would die for you in secret."
Taylor Swift, 'Peace'
“But if the story's over, why am I still writing pages?”
Taylor Swift
They say all's well that ends well, but I'm in a new Hell
Every time you double-cross my mind
Taylor Swift, 'All too well'
You kept me like a secret, but I kept you like an oath.
Taylor Swift, 'All too well'
"We don't even ask for happiness, just a little less pain."
Charles Bukowski
“You have a lot in common with the moon; its light & its beauty, & its distance from me.”
Nizar Qabbani
“You became like coffee, in the deliciousness, and the bitterness, and the addiction.”
Mahmoud Darwish
When Tahseen Anam said,
" And we fall for those who are not even there to hold us"
I felt it through and through.
I'd rather sit in silence with you than have thousands of conversations with other people.
"Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense?"
Rudy Francisco