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Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge. If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.

Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“You’ve got to find yourself first. Everything else’ll follow.”

— Charles de Lint

“When you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you’re by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don’t feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you’re really alone.”

— Fiona Apple

“What’s most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.”

— J.K. Rowling

I reach for you even when you’re not there.

I love small talk. Why does everything have to be serious to be meaningful? Tell me about your morning, you had pancakes with homemde syrup? Your motorcycle is the shop? Yes this weather is lovely. How was that movie? You got that shirt on sale for how much?? Talk to me for no reason other than to talk. Share your quiet moments and I'll share mine. We are both human and your company is precious, especially when you're complaining about your neighbors, when you tell me how your garden is doing, when we laugh at the obsurdity of simply existing.

No pressure, no diamonds

“Nobody looks good in their darkest hours. But it’s those hours that make us what we are.”

— Karen Marie Moning, Faefever

I just can't get u out of my head

The purest form of love is consideration. When someone thinks about how things would make you feel. Pays attention to detail. Holds you in regard when making decisions that could affect you. In any bond, how much they care about you can be found in how much they consider you

Waves will pass. That's what they do.

Autumn has always been Poet's season

Questions about happiness generally assume that we know what happy life looks like. Happiness is often described as the result of having a great many ducks lined up in a row—spouse, offspring, private property, erotic experiences—even though a millisecond of reflection will bring to mind countless people who have all those things and are still miserable.

Rebecca Solnit, “The Mother of All Questions”

My alone feels so good. I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.

mom, your child reads crime and punishment for fun

“Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.”

— LEO TOLSTOI, War and Peace

[Except for your eyes, / no blade can control me, / no sharpened knife.]

Vladimir Mayakovsky, Lilichka

—On Love, Marina Tsvetaeva

[text ID: I just want a humble, murderously simple thing: that a person be glad when I walk into the room.]

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― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

1,2. Vincent van Gogh | 3. Kassia St. Clair | 4. Vincent van Gogh | 5. Jeff Sobel (On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous By Ocean Vuong) | 6. Hannah Gadsby | 7. Alireza Sadaghdar | 8. Richard Brautigan | 9. Ocean Vuong | 10. Olha Darchuk | 11. Vladimir Nabokov

A jaded soul

A childish heart

It feels like I

Am breaking apart

In some parallel universe, I know you held me tighter. You tried harder. You said, “Look my love, I will meet you halfway.”

Leila Chatti, “Tea”

“...Things I hold most dear: music, nature, poetry, solitude.”

Marina Tsvetaeva in a letter to Boris Pasternak

𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑜 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑒-𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑦 𝑝𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑒.

—E.V. Rogina

i dont want to talk,

leave me,

let silence be my voice,

silence,

the silence i embraced and hold on to when you ignored me

i can feel the waves crushing through my body

happiness

sadness

back and forth

they break, i dont