Mandi Brown

“He knew that his love for her would enable him to discover every treasure in the world.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Love, you will never lose me to the wind. You are the lightning that made me fill my chest with candles. You are the thunder clapping for the poem nobody else wants to hear. You are an icicle’s tear watering a tulip on the first day of spring. You melt me alive. You kiss me deep as my roots will reach, and I want nothing more than”
― Andrea Gibson, The Madness Vase

“You once said to me that you and I existed outside this plane, where space and time were wound into a ball and not in a straight line. We would always be together because we had always been together. We were acting out all our moments simultaneously right now. Ghosts, you had told me, were time travelers not bound by the here and now.”
― Ronald Malfi, Come with Me

“Change how you breathe to change how you feel. Specifically, “belly breathing,” or taking deep, diaphragmatic breaths that cause your belly to rise and fall, has an immediate soothing effect on your nervous system.”
― Lara Honos-Webb, Brain Hacks: Life-Changing Strategies to Improve Executive Functioning