“I’d Much Rather Have One Great Person To Talk To Every Night Than Have Several Pointless Conversations

Franz Wright, from God's Silence; "East Boston, 1996"

[Text ID: The long silences need to be loved, perhaps / more than the words / which arrive / to describe them / in time.]

“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

“One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another is that writing motivates you to look closely at life, at life as it lurches by and tramps around.”

— Anne Lamott

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”

— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.”

— Henry David Thoureau

“When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don’t get to decide that you didn’t.”

— Louis C.K. (via thoughtkick)

“Do you know how much thinking and feeling I’ve done? It’s terrible. And nothing’s come of it.”

— Andrei Platonov, Happy Moscow.

Some eyes touch you more than hands ever could.

“You are worth finding. Worth knowing. Worth loving. You and your one million layers.”

— Unknown

I write about you as it is the only way to love you.

Junaid Warrior