Jaime

“As I drove, I thought about the past year. It was amazing that I was noticing things like the ocean sparkle and stink, the pelicans, the crash of the waves, and the islands. Depression made you not notice things like that. It closed your world down and you didn’t enjoy anything at all. It was just too hard to do anything. Think. Move. Appreciate. Breathe. Too hard to do any of that.”
― Leslie McAdam, The Sun and the Moon

“I want to paint humanity, humanity and again humanity.”
― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of a Post-Impressionist Being the Familiar Correspondence of Vincent Van Gogh

“What I felt for you was love. The poets, the philosophers—they say things about perfect love. How it heals, how it behaves, how it braves all things. But they’re idealizing it. Best-case scenario: love saves the day. But I was the worst-case scenario. Love is sometimes powerful enough to self-destruct. Because when an imperfect person wields the most powerful weapon in the universe, they’re bound to trip over their own feet.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Marriage

“When your time is yours, use it to create something, Father John had always told them. A picture, some words, anything. Don’t rot your brain with gossip.”
― Christina Lauren, The House