"Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth." ~ Margaret Atwood

"Love is so short, forgetting is so long." ~ Pablo Neruda

"I reserve the right to evolve. What I think and feel
today is subject to revision tomorrow.” ~ Gwen Thomas

"We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other." ~ Jose Saramago

"Be careful in casting out your devil ‘lest you cast out the
best thing about you." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as
perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangible ideas,
concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. but things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk

"There are days when everything is about you." ~ Rilke

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. ~ Anaïs Nin

There are really two kinds of life. There is, as Viri says, the one that people believe you are living, and there is the other. It is this other which causes the trouble, this other we long to see. ~ Light Years - James Salter

The thing is
to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you've held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.
When grief sits with you, its tropical heat
thickening the air, heavy as water
more fit for gills than lungs;
when grief weights you like your own flesh
only more of it, an obesity of grief,
you think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again
~Ellen Bass

"Who you will be is when you are finished being who you think you should be." ~ Neemkeroli Baba

"There is a crack, a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." ~ Leonard Cohen

"What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment." ~ Viktor Frankl

Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color." ~ W.S. Merwin