“Maybe home is nothing but two arms holding you tight when you’re at your worst.”
— Yara Bashraheel
“There are worlds in you, and I have fallen in love with every one.”
— Beau Taplin
“When was the last time anyone ever told you how important you are?”
— Maya Angelou
“Don’t wait around for others to experience life with you. Take the lead, go out, and get the most out of life. Eventually, you’ll have more company than you can handle.”
— Unknown
“A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.”
— William G.T. Shedd
“I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.”
— Jack Gilbert, “The Great Fires”
“Lately I’ve been thinking about who I want to love, and how I want to love, and why I want to love the way I want to love, and what I need to learn to love that way, and who I need to become to become the kind of love I want to be…and when I break it all down, when I whittle it into a single breath, it essentially comes out like this: Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.”
— Andrea Gibson
“We often want it so badly that we ruin it before it begins. Overthinking. Fantasizing. Imagining. Expecting. Worrying. Doubting. Just let it naturally evolve”
— Unknown