Daiana Damacus

“We have not long to love.
Light does not stay.
The tender things are those
we fold away.
Coarse fabrics are the ones
for common wear.
In silence I have watched you
comb your hair.
Intimate the silence,
dim and warm.
I could but did not, reach
to touch your arm.
I could, but do not, break
that which is still.
(Almost the faintest whisper
would be shrill.)
So moments pass as though
they wished to stay.
We have not long to love.
A night. A day....”
― Tennessee Williams, The Collected Poems

“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.”
― Bruce Holsinger, The Gifted School

“Stop looking at it as an impossible thing and start looking at it as a thing that must be done.”
― Natasha Pulley, The Bedlam Stacks

“That's the problem. We let people say stuff, and they say it so much that it becomes okay to them and normal for us. What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give