— Julie Anne Peters, From “By The Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead.”

I want to be sixteen again

“We never believe we’re beautiful, no matter how many times we hear it. We never believe it until someone says it in the right way.”

— Francine Prose

“To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don’t let it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Unknown

“She understood that the hardest times in life to go through were when you were transitioning from one version of yourself to another.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

“Things will happen in your life that you can’t stop. But that’s no reason to shut out the world.”

— Unknown

Word Meadows

I've lost myself among the meadows of letters and words I'm deep in the throes of a unrecognizable place that's all too familiar Learning to speak the language of my heart once again.

“I would open my heart and carry it in my hand so that others may know also; for there is no deeper desire than the desire of being revealed. We all want that little light in us to be taken from under the bushel.”

— Kahlil Gibran in his letter to Mary Elizabeth Haskell dated 11 Nov 1911, Beloved Prophet: The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran and Mary Haskell, and Her Private Journal 

Yves Olade, from Bloodsport; “When rome falls”

Velimir Khlebnikov, from Collected Poems & Selected Writings; “Everland,”