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I stopped explaining myself when I realized people only understand from their level of perception.

“Never cry for the same reason twice.”

—Stephen Richards

"...There is, despite our wildest imaginings, only one life. The ghostly others, no matter how real they seem, no matter how badly we need them, are phantoms. The one life we're left with is sufficient to fill and refill our imperfect hearts with joy, and then to shatter them. And it never, ever lets up.  Blame love."  - Richard Russo

"This is the last time that I'm ever gonna come here tonight. This is the last time I will fall into a place that fails us all inside."

-Dishwalla, Angels and Devils

“Thank you…for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence.”

—Richard Matheson

What Dreams May Come

julieta (2016)

“I bury the thing I love.”

—Jane Kenyon

“I believe that your first reading of the book is your introduction to the book. The second reading is the first reading. The third reading is the dream come true where you’re so familiar with the book that it’s like hearing from a friend, that you, by now, really can read this book with depth, with passion, with an understanding that the first time you read it, you were often misunderstanding the intention of the writer. You were seeing the battleground but not the sides. The forest for the trees is the usual metaphor.”

-Michael Silverblatt

in an interview

“I could cry for roses, thinking of you, thinking of your lips, so like roses,”

—Carl Sandburg

“They Met Young”

—Anne Sexton

“December 18th”

—Anne Sexton

from a letter to Anne Clarke written c. March 1964

“some nights you are the lighthouse / some nights the sea”

—Ocean Vuong

"I shall return."

-- Gen. Douglas MacArthur

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Khalil Gibran

This old river keeps on rollin’ though

No matter what gets in the way, or which way the wind does blow

And as long as it does, I’ll just sit here and watch the river flow.

- Bob Dylan

The final seven words from the greatest novel yet written.

“I promise to plant kisses like seeds on your body, so in time you can grow to love yourself as I love you.”

—Tyler Knott Gregson

“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Some of you need to remember this:

“Breathe. It’s only a bad day, not a bad life.”

—Ashley Purdy

“It is not down in any map; true places never are.”

- Herman Melville

—Anaïs Nin

—Clive Barker

—Sarah Williams

—Vicente Aleixandre

“She slept like the dead, dark and dreamless.”

— Kate Morton

The Forgotten Garden

She is sweet like a gentle dream.

—Robert Walser

from Fairy Tales; "Snow White" (trans. from the German)

—George Seferis

“Dream”

—Franz Kafka

Letters to Milena