starryn!ghts

“You are not alone, Ash. I am with you. My soul is always with you.”
― Akimi Yoshida, Banana Fish, Vol. 19

“I wondered what terrible thing it was that I had done.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I can’t lose the thing I’ve held onto for so long, you know?” My face twists up from the pain of pushing it out. “I just really need it to be a love story, you know? I really, really need it to be that.”
“I know,” she says.
“Because if it isn’t a love story, then what is it”? I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide open empathy. “It’s my life,” I say. “This has been my whole life.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“If pain can purify the heart, mine will be pure.”
― Mary Shelley, Mathilda Mary Shelley