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“If you see beauty in something, don’t wait for others to agree.”

—Sherihan Gamal

“If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy.
Even if you wind up being left out.”

—Stephen Chbosky

“Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young.
A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.”

—Orison Swett Marden

“It’s been very rare to have known you, very strange and wonderful.”

—F. Scott Fitzgerald

“This is what I like about photographs.
They’re proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.”

—Jodi Picoult

“I want to be the first thing you touch in the morning and the last thing you taste at night.”

—Sade Andria Zabala

“That’s the thing about life; everything feels so permanent,
but you can disappear in an instant.”

—Jonathan Tropper

“Don’t wait too long.
Life takes unexpected turns,
and we don’t always have the time we think we have.”

—Sylvain Reynard

“It’s painful to have her around,
but it’s even more painful to be away from her.”

—Kijeok

“I think we love who we love and there’s not a damn thing that can be done about it.”

—Susan Donovan

“If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.”

—Edgar Allan Poe

“Eventually soulmates meet, for they have the same hiding place.”

—Robert Brault

“Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.”

—F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Be with someone who treats you as a destination, not a stop along the way.”

—Mandy Hale

“Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.”

—Selma Lagerlöf

“Without goals and plans to reach them,
you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.”

—Fitzhugh Dodson

“He was my crack. I could never get enough,
and when I had him I was already thinking about when I could have him next.”

—Tarryn Fisher

“I want to be cured
Of a craving for something I cannot find
And of the shame of never finding it”

—T.S. Eliot

“I am going to make you love me.
Sweetheart, what I mean is:
I want to sit on the edge of your bed while you have your breakfast -
I want to laugh with you, be incredibly silly, be incredibly happy, be like children,
and I want to kiss you more than anything in the world.”

—Edna St. Vincent Millay
in a letter to George Dillon,
c. 1929

“You make me dreamy.”

—Marie Duplessis
to Franz Liszt
c. 1845

“…seductive sweetness,”

—Virginia Woolf
from a diary entry written
c. May 1919
featured in
“The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume I (1915-1919)”

“I am drowning, my dear, in seas of fire.”

—Virginia Woolf
To The Lighthouse

“In my flowery dreams there’s always you.
I do not regret it one bit.

—Alfred De Musset

“Sex and art are the same thing.”

—Pablo Picasso

“You touch me like I am everything you asked god for.
Underneath your hands I become poetry.
This is the alchemy that you do.”

—T. James

“How do you move on?
You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.”

—J.R.R. Tolkien

“You were made to be kissed, often and well.”

—George R.R. Martin

“She sucked the blood; she said she’d drain my heart—”

—Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre

“Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life?
Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath?
Do you also hurry, half-dressed and barefoot, into the garden,
and softly, and exclaiming of their dearness, fill your arms with the white and pink flowers,
with their honeyed heaviness, their lush trembling, their eagerness to be wild and perfect for a moment,
before they are nothing, forever?”

—Mary Oliver
excerpt of “Peonies”, in Blue Iris