Jennifer

“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
― Maya Angelou

“Dying should come easy:
like a freight train you
don't hear when
your back is
turned.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems – Gritty and Inspiring Unpublished Verse by Charles Bukowski

“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“I sit here
drunk now.
I am
a series of
small victories
and large defeats
and I am as
amazed
as any other
that
I have gotten
from there to
here
without committing murder
or being
murdered;
without
having ended up in the
madhouse.

as I drink alone
again tonight
my soul despite all the past
agony
thanks all the gods
who were not
there
for me
then.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last