"I Just Need To Go Out 'cause I Can Sleep When I'm Dead"

“It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don’t want to lose someone, even if they don’t deserve our forgiveness.”

— Deb Caletti

Falling into the routine

Of having you with me

Is as simple as breathing

For all my decades without you

My mind finds itself at home

My body fits against yours

My heart sighs in relief

How you are so familiar

When I've only known you

For a mere fraction of my life

Is simply beyond me

“Some people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.”

— John Green

“It never really goes away, the longing for the life not lived, because isn’t that part of how we come to know ourselves too? Through what we lack as much as what we have, all we dream but do not hold. Some desires have no resolution.”

— Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt (Tin House Books, March 7, 2023) 

“Eventually soulmates meet, for they have the same hiding place.”

— Unknown

Bring Me The Horizon - in the dark

One thing I’ve learned about writing is ”give everything a face”. It’s no good to write passively that the nobility fled the city or that the toxic marshes were poisoning the animals beyond any ability to function. Make a protagonist see how a desperate woman in torn silks climbs onto a carriage and speeds off, or a two-headed deer wanders right into the camp and into the fire. Don’t just have an ambiguous flock of all-controlling oligarchy, name one or two representatives of it, and illustrate just how vile and greedy they are as people.

it’s bad to have characters who serve no purpose in the story, but giving something a face is a perfectly valid purpose.

To whom do I owe the biggest apology? No one's been crueler than I've been to me.

~ Alanis Morissette, Sorry To Myself

I'm not the exception, I'm a blessing of a body to love on

- I’m Not Here to Make Friends, Sam Smith

If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.

Lemony Snicket