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

Jimmy Santiago Baca, from “I Am Offering This Poem”

“But I must admit I miss you terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby.”

— Lemony Snicket; The Beatrice Letters

You can’t live for someone else. At some point you just explode.

Matthew Quick

“Sometimes you have to do what’s best for you, not what’s best for somebody else.”

— Unknown (via stay-close)

Just because i don’t talk about it, doesn’t mean i forget.

“The person you will be in 5 years is based on the books you read and the people you surround yourself with today.”

— Unknown (via stay-close)

“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 

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, from “Carmilla”

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Helen Keller