Franka

“A man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river
                    but then he’s still left
with the river. A man takes his sadness and throws it away
                                                                        but then he’s still left with his hands.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984