Delete that old version of me in yo head. It expired
“And it seems I must always write you letters that I can never send.”
— Sylvia Plath
“We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm - yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.”
— E.M. Forster
“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.”
— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
Some eyes touch you more than hands ever could.
“I write to find out what I’m thinking.”
— Julia Alvarez
“Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.”
— E.E. Cummings
“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.”
— Franz Kafka
“I have a list in my head of all the feelings I still want to feel before I die. And you have ticked so many things off that list.”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You