“I Am Still Learning.”

— Jeremy Radin, from “So I Locked Myself Inside a Star for Twenty Years.”

If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life. Even if you can’t get together with that person.

Haruki Murakami

i.

the end of the day like the last stop of a train, the sun too  is on its way out of sight,

past the horizon with its  dusk and all the stars.

ii.

tomorrow is a window onto hope, growing like a flower in soil gently tilled,

like the way you are gentle flow  and ebb, between here and now, there and soon… and in between 

the pages tucked, feather light  the mark you booked — through all the cracks, 

the shimmering edge of everything  disappearing into this… a halo  of softness, what is an angel anyway 

but a disguise… for all the places  you didn’t look, some being  holds the torch quietly… when you don’t. 

The mind is a child that poisons the body over it's tantrums

Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017)

- Emily Dickinson

A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That’s why they don’t get what they want.

Madonna Ciccone

Lorde //  Emily St. John Mandel // Geoffrey Hill 

You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

Louise Erdrich

“I hope you fall in love with someone who never lets you fall asleep thinking you’re unwanted.”

— Unknown