Vanesa M.

“It's cold today, but in a spring way, and I love you.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Vera

“We can hardly bear to look. The shadow may carry the best of the life we have not lived. Go into the basement, the attic, the refuse bin. Find gold there. Find an animal who has not been fed or watered. It is you!! This neglected, exiled animal, hungry for attention, is a part of your self. —Marion Woodman (as quoted by Stephen Cope in The Great Work of Your Life)”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“Evanescent grace, you vanish as a vapor
does, or love in open air.”
― Jill Alexander Essbaum, Heaven

“Run and be free. They cannot use what they cannot find.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone