“He Who Fights With Monsters Should Look To It That He Himself Does Not Become A Monster.. And When

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I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.

- Jaime Gil De Biedma

Nikita Gill

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“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

when you think you have nothing left you still have the moon, sunsets, your favorite music, paper to write on, warm clothes, new starts and your cute self

Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980

“I want to talk to you. Of course I want to talk to you. I’m just not too sure you want to talk to me.”

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“At the end of a relationship, it is the one who is not in love that makes the tender speeches.”

— Alain de Botton, Essays in Love

“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