Maddie

“Fare thee well my nightingale
I lived but to be near you
Though you are singing somewhere still
I can no longer hear you”
― Leonard Cohen, The Flame

“I discover that grief means living with someone who is no longer there.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story

“Dear friend, I have searched all night
through each burnt paper,
but I fear I will never find
the formula to let you die”
― Leonard Cohen, Let Us Compare Mythologies

“And after that they had gone through many streets they came to a little door that was set in a wall that was covered with a pomegranate tree. And the old man touched the door with a ring of graved jaspar and it opened, and they went down five steps of brass into a garden filled with black poppies and green jars of burnt clay.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Star-Child and Other Tales