Caelin

“I look into my eyes, but they aren’t really mine, not the eyes I used to have. They’re the eyes of someone very tired and very sad, and once I see them I feel even sadder and then I see that sadness, that compassion, for the sadness in my eyes, and I see the water rising in them. I’m both the sad person and the person wanting to comfort the sad person. And then I feel sad for that person who has so much compassion because she’s clearly been through the same thing, too. And the cycle keeps repeating”
― Lily King

“When you write, you have to take people to the closet. Not to the living room or the kitchen, not even to your bedroom. No, you take them straight to the goddamn closet, the place you keep your most secret, unmentionable things.”
― Daisy Alpert Florin, My Last Innocent Year

“But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“People are mostly very easy to love,” he said. “I don’t find it difficult.”
“Even me?” She wondered if she even wanted to hear that answer.
“Oh, Meredith, it is so fucking easy to love you. The hard stuff with you is the being loved part.”
― Olivie Blake, Gifted & Talented