“I won’t say it wasn’t meant to be, because it was. We were. Only for a short while, maybe. But we were.”
— Unknown
We were never meant for each other but I'm glad that even for a sheer moment it felt like we were.
“Well, the rain had passed but the pain was still there.”
— Charles Bukowski
“Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.”
— Max Ehrmann
“Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.”
— Kay Redfield Jamison
“And suddenly you know: It’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.”
— Meister Eckhart
Natalie Díaz, from “Isn't the Air Also a Body, Moving?”, Postcolonial Love Poem