will never get over the fact that we can love people despite there being countries between us. we can miss people we’ve never seen in person. we can connect and bond over hundreds of things without ever needing to be in each others physical presence. we can have half the globe between us and love never falters.

“But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I’m saying? Does it feel this way to you?”

― Kazuo Ishiguro

"But what is grief,

if not love persevering?"

-Jac Schaeffer

"I love looking at the moon when it's still a crescent because I love everything that has a future."

"I have passed by many eyes,

but I only got lost in yours."

“The number of hours we have together is actually not so large. Please linger near the door uncomfortably instead of just leaving. Please forget your scarf in my life and come back later for it.” ― Mikko Harvey

"Sometimes you are all you have."

-and sometimes that's all you need.

“In one split second, I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I’m not.”

― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we’ve loved them, left them, or fought them.”

― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.”

- William Faulkner, Light in August

“She is like all the rest of them. Whether they are seventeen or forty-seven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it's going to be in words.”

― William Faulkner, Light in August

“Heroes only come in three kinds: dead, damaged, or dubious.”

― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“She loved the guy. She did it for him. She would’ve done anything for him. Some people are like that. Some loves are like that. Most loves are like that, from what I can see. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, and your self-respect and your independence. After a while you start throwing people out—your friends, everyone you used to know. And it’s still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, and you know it’s going to take you down with it. I’ve seen that happen to a lot of people here. I think that’s why I’m sick of love.”

― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram.

“And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as an honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.”

― William Faulkner, Light in August.

“I didn’t know you could get buried in your own silence.”

― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.”

― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

When death

takes my hand

I will hold you with the other

and promise to find you

in every lifetime.

-commitment