Strange As It May Seem, I Still Hope For The Best, Even Though The Best, Like An Interesting Piece Of

“The world didn’t know / what to do with my love. / Because it isn’t used to being loved”

— Richard Siken, Self-Portrait Against Red Wallpaper

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

“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 

“When it’s over, leave. Don’t continue watering a dead flower.”

— Unknown

Mary Oliver, from “Hum Hum”, A Thousand Mornings

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it’s all that matters.

Audrey Hepburn

I can only cry when I'm drunk

I can only feel when I'm numb

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”

— Aristoteles

“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

“The worst distance between two people is misunderstanding.”

— Law of Attraction