Raina Joseph

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
― Plato

“There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction, and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen.”
― Ann Rule

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns