Unknown // Carole Anne Trisler

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”

— Neil Gaiman 

“Do you love him? I don’t know. I believe he is my fate.”

— Anne Carson, excerpt of “TV Men: Akhmatova (Treatment for a Script); AKHMATOVA’S MARRIAGE (1910) HAS LITTLE EFFECT ON HER”, in Men in the Off Hours

“It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.”

— Nicholas Sparks 

—Beau Taplin, Moon Phases

The war will end, 

and leaders will shake hands.

That old woman will keep waiting for her martyred son.

And those children will keep waiting for their hero father.

I don't know who sold our homeland,

but I saw who paid the price.

Mahmoud Darwish

“There is nothing wrong with staying with someone and trying to make it work. Just be sure you know the difference between determination and desperation.”

— Charles Orlando 

“Comparing yourself to others is an act of violence against your authentic self.”

— Iyanla Vanzant 

“I was quiet, but I was not blind.”

— Jane Austen