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“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
“I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”
— C.S. Lewis
“I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.”
— Franz Kafka
“I don’t know what living a balanced life feels like. When I am sad, I don’t cry, I pour. When I am happy, I don’t smile, I glow. When I am angry, I don’t yell, I burn. The good thing about feeling in extremes, is when I love, I give them wings. But perhaps that isn’t such a good thing, cause they always tend to leave and you should see me, when my heart is broken. I don’t grieve, I shatter.”
— Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey








I was tame, I was gentle till the circus life made me mean. Don't you worry, folks, we took out all his teeth. Who's afraid of little old me? Well, you should be, you should be, you should be
But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
Viktor E. Frankl
my hands are not clean and maybe they never will be but they can still carry you home when you’re ready to sleep
i love you green. i love you forests. i love you smell of damp earth. i love you feeling before the storm breaks. i love you moss. i love you rivers. i love you streams. i love you thunderstorms. i love you sunlight shining through leaves.
“There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.”
— Elizabeth Berg

Edgar Allan Poe, from a letter to Mrs. Maria Clemm, July 1849
“I’ve seen a lot of beautiful things with a heavy heart.”
— Albert Camus
“If someday the moon calls you by your name don’t be surprised, because every night I tell her about you.”
— Shahrazad al-Khalij