“I keep that memory somewhere inside me—where it’s safe. I take it out and look at it when I need to. As if it were a photograph.”
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
“Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with.”
— Paulo Coelho
“If you saw her in these moments, you might think she was collecting her thoughts in order to go forward. But I see it another way: Her mind is being overwhelmed by two processes that must simultaneously proceed at full steam. One is to deal with and live in the present world. The other is to re-experience and mourn something that happened long ago.”
— Steve Martin, The Pleasure of My Company
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) dir. Céline Sciamma
“Don’t look away. Look straight at everything. Look it all in the eye, good and bad.”
— Henry Miller
“I take great care of myself by carefully shutting myself away”
— Vincent Van Gogh
“It’s been very rare to have known you, very strange and wonderful.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald; The Beautiful and Damned
“Two souls don’t find each other by simple accident.”
— Jorge Luis Borges
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
[text ID: I spiral back to me, sitting here, swimming, drowning, sick with longing.]
“The strongest people have a past filled with chaos, heart break and disappointment.”
— r.h. Sin
Clementine Von Radics, from In A Dream You Saw A Way To Survive; “You are flying home today”
