Different kinds of theft
Love Letter #618
If I wrote you a love letter, it would start out like a country song. I’d say you remind me of the moon, full of the light I need. I’d tell you that you are cool like the night, and you soothe me. That I need you to rest easy. To dream. I’d say the days with you are like long rides thru winding roads. That I can’t get there fast enough when I’m coming for you. I’d say you are brighter than the neon in our favorite place. That your smile warms my heart, like the fireplace we cuddle next to. That you take care of me in a way that is music to my heart. I want to wake up next to you. Everyday. Every day. How I want to be what you want, because that’s what I want. That I miss you when you’re not here, and will kiss you when you are. I’d say you are mine and I am yours then, now, forever. As long as I live. How real love never goes away. Never dies, even if I do. If I wrote you a love letter, I’d tell you all this.
“And then one moment we share our hands in holding and I am engrossed with a feeling that cannot be explained— maybe the stars know what I am speaking of.”
Sophocles, Elektra (trans. Anne Carson)
“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?””
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“We have all hurt someone tremendously, whether by intent or accident. we have all loved someone tremendously, whether by intent or accident. it is an intrinsic human trait, and a deep responsibility, i think, to be an organ and a blade. but, learning to forgive ourselves and others because we have not chosen wisely is what makes us most human. we make horrible mistakes. it’s how we learn. we breathe love. it’s how we learn. and it is inevitable.”
— Nayyirah Waheed (via justenjoui)
“When a thing has served its purpose, it will go away. If you try to hold on to something that has already fulfilled its purpose in your life, you are going to hurt yourself. If holding on is disturbing your peace of mind, it makes sense to let go. Surrender all attachments to people and things that you have been struggling to hold on to.”
— Iyanla Vanzant (via nymphoblues)
“Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven’t loved enough.”
— Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love (via thelovejournals)
“If you see beauty in something, don’t wait for others to agree.”
— Sherihan Gamal (via wordsnquotes)
“Nothing is better for the soul than to make another soul less sad.”
— Paul Verlaine, tr. by C. F. MacIntyre, from 101 Poems; “Sagesses,” (via violentwavesofemotion)
“You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.”
— Alan Watts (via goodreadss)
“Goodnight dear. If you were in my bed it might be the back of your head I was touching, where the hair is short, or it might be up in the front where it makes little caves above your head. But wherever it was, it would be the sweetest place, the sweetest place.”
— Zelda Fitzgerald, “Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald,” 1931 (via wordsnquotes)





