Tzakouzi

“The two of you, like headphone wires tangling, caught up in this something. A happy accident. A messy miracle.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“THE LAST OF my peppermint tea has gone cold and the autumn chill has settled over me, but I don’t want to go in. I want to sit and look at the stars. I want to watch them move across the sky and disappear behind the trees. My head is resting on the back of the lawn chair, my eyes pointing toward the sky”
― Amanda Peters, The Berry Pickers

“All night I float
in the shallow ponds
while the moon wanders burning,
bone white,
among the milky stems.”
― Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“But when you come everything changes. The cups and saucers changed when you came in this morning. There can be no doubt, I thought, pushing aside the newspaper, that our mean lives, unsightly as they are, put on splendour and have meaning only under the eyes of love.”
― Woolf Virginia