“Do You Want To Meet The Love Of Your Life? Look In The Mirror.”

“I forgive people but that doesn’t mean I accept their behavior or trust them again. I forgive them for me, so I can let go and move on with my life.”

— Unknown

father roger goes for a walk by Franz Wright

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Helen Keller

Bianca Stone, from What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems; “Cutting Odette’s Fingernails”

Alanis Morissette, Sorry to Myself/Haruki Murakami,1084

And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.

John Steinbeck

my muse has been missing for three days, and has just escaped/been found/etc. send "Hello?" for what my muse says in their first phonecall to yours, when they finally get access to a phone.

“Nothing is quite as beautiful as someone who has survived losing everything and still has a tender heart.”

— Unknown

“The past doesn’t need you anymore. Your future does.”

— Unknown

When I am being loved, I respond to it with love, too. When I'm being less taken care of or ignored, I give back the same energy. I'm a believer in equivalent exchange. And that's my way of giving justice to this so-called reciprocation.

V.J. Universe