Anne Sexton, From The Collected Poems; “Flight”

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

Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives.

Lemony Snicket

“You can’t always wait for the perfect time. Sometimes you just have to jump.”

— Unknown

I think I might always be in some kind of love with you.

F. Cabanes

“I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do. I learned to suspect that everyone is capable of living a lie. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.”

— Lynn Barber (via stay-close)

Would you destroy something perfect in order to make it beautiful?

Gerard Way

“You can never replace anyone because everyone is made of such beautiful, specific details.”

— Before Sunset (2004), Richard Linklater

Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017)

“You do not need another heart to make yours beat, despite popular misconception.”

— Ian S. Thomas

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