“Do You Know How Much Thinking And Feeling I’ve Done? It’s Terrible. And Nothing’s Come Of It.”

“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.”

— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“I will never be good enough for everybody. But I am the best for someone who really appreciates me.”

— Unknown

“There’s something beautiful about keeping certain aspects of your life hidden. Maybe people and clouds are beautiful because you can’t see everything.”

— Kamenashi Kazuya

“A man can’t love you because you haven’t read as many books as he has? He can’t love you because you don’t speak French or because you don’t go to operas? You’re telling me we have to fall in love with people who are just like us?”

— Billie Letts

“please don’t come closer unless you plan to stay”

— Unknown

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.]

“Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.”

— James Hillman

“Your truest friends are the ones who stand by you in your darkest moments, because they are willing to brave the shadows with you, and in your greatest moments, because they are not afraid to let you shine.”

— Nicole Yatsonsky

“Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red.”

— Kait Rokowski

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

— Unknown