Nazim Hikmet, Trans. By Randy Blasing And Mutlu Konuk

Anne Sexton, from The Collected Poems; “Flight”

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

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

— Unknown

“In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart.”

— Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“One of the hardest lessons in life is letting go. Whether it’s guilt, love, anger, loss or betrayal, change is never easy. We fight to hold on and we fight to let go.”

— Unknown

“Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.”

— Charlie Chaplin in a letter to his daughter, Geraldine

“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”

— Unknown

the problem with reading and writing leading to a strong vocabulary is that you tend to know the vibe of words instead of their meanings.

if I used this word in a sentence, would it make sense? absolutely. if you asked me what it meant, could I tell you? absolutely not.

“I understood myself only after I destroyed myself. And only in the process of fixing myself did I know who I really was.”

— Sade Andria Zabala