Desiree

“for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“my heart has more rooms in it than a whore house”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“While I'm writing, I'm far away;
and when I come back, I've gone.”
― Pablo Neruda

“I write emotional algebra.”
― Anais Nin