Goodthingsinlife - Inexplicable Feelings

“I’m sorry you were not truly loved and that it made you cruel.”

— Warsan Shire

“Like a river has no need of air, nor the sea of land, nor the sword of banquets, I have no need of the world if you are not in it.”

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Dulce María Loynaz, Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems; “Poema XXXVI” (tr. James O’Connor)

[Original: Fuera de ti ha de sobrarme el mundo, como le sobra al río el aire, al mar la tierra, a la espada la mesa del convite.]

The things that we love tell us what we are. -Aquinas

“What-ifs and could-have-beens were not the way to move forward. She knew that from experience.”

— Judi Fennell

“Lately I’ve been thinking about who I want to love, and how I want to love, and why I want to love the way I want to love, and what I need to learn to love that way, and who I need to become to become the kind of love I want to be…and when I break it all down, when I whittle it into a single breath, it essentially comes out like this: Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.”

— Andrea Gibson

“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt