Madison E

“To lose something you never had can be just as painful—because it is the hope of having it that you lose. The hope that in this world, there are magical fish who will give you advice and warning, when really, the future is unknowable and infinitely dangerous.”
― Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

“The tin man
is ruined
by butterflies”
― Manoel de Barros, Birds for a Demolition

“This is worse than Mordor!’ said Sam. ‘Much worse in a way. It comes home to you, as they say; because it is home, and you remember it before it was all ruined.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“We look up for God, but tears have made us blind.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Cry of the Children