Who we are is constantly evolving
“Our eyelashes brushed like they would weave together by themselves, turning us into one wild thing. I say, “I think I missed you before I met you even”
—Francesca Lia Block
March 2010
“Sometimes you fall, spinning through space, grasping for the things that keep you on this earth. Sometimes you catch them. They can be the hands of the people you love. They can be your pets - pups with funny names, cats with ferocious old souls. The thing that keeps you here can be your art. It can be things you have collected and invested with a certain sense of meaning. A flowered, buckled treasure chest of secrets. Shoes that make you taller and, therefore, closer to the heavens. A suit that belonged to your fairy godmother. A dress that makes you feel a little like the Goddess herself. Sometimes you keep falling; you don’t catch anything. Sometimes you fall, spinning through space, grasping for the things that keep you here. Sometimes you catch them. Sometimes you don’t. Sometimes they catch you”
—Francesca Lia Block
“We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting”
—Charles Bukowski
“That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen”
—Charles Bukowski
“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay
“They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don’t think it’s possible for you to miss me as much as I’m missing you right now”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay
“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (via: elicec) (via quote-book)
“But who can say what’s best? That’s why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives”
—Haruki Murakami
“I’m so afraid of losing something I love, that I refuse to love anything”
—Jonathan Safran Foer
“It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss”
—Jonathan Safran Foer
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living”
—Jonathan Safran Foer
“I hope you never love anything as much as I love you”
—Jonathan Safran Foer
“I never thought about things at all, everything changed, the distance that wedged itself between me and my happiness wasn’t the world, it wasn’t the bombs and burning buildings, it was me, my thinking, my cancer of never letting go, is ignorance bliss, I don’t know, but it’s so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I’ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it”
—Jonathan Safran Foer
“Words never mean what we want them to mean”
—Jonathan Safran Foer
“Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected”
—Jonathan Safran Foer
“It’s hard being left behind. It’s hard to be the one who stays.”
—Audrey Niffenegger
“Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by absence?”
—Audrey Niffenegger
“Maybe I’m dreaming you. Maybe you’re dreaming me; maybe we only exist in each other’s dreams and every morning when we wake up we forget all about each other.”
—Audrey Niffenegger
“I won’t ever leave you, even though you’re always leaving me.”
—Audrey Niffenegger
“Dead people need us to remember them, even if it eats us, even if all we can do is say I’m sorry until it is as meaningless as air.”
—Audrey Niffenegger
