jude

“There was, and still is, a divine pleasure in having someone peel back all the layers and scoop out all the muck in order to get a good look at you. As egotistical as it is, I admit, I wanted to hear about myself, from someone who was always watching, always studying, always storing that information. Tell me more about me, I wanted to say. Go on.”
― Marisa Crane, A Sharp Endless Need

“I weep because you cannot save people. You can only love them. You can’t transform them, you can only console them.”
― Anaïs Nin, Nearer the Moon: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1937-1939

“I believe we all have the choice to be better than the hands that shaped us.”
― Nora Sakavic, The Sunshine Court

“Loneliness is important. So, is love and the lack of it.”
― Krzysztof Kieślowski