“I don't know if spirits do indeed roam the world, but even if they do, I will sense your presence everywhere. When I listen to the ocean, it will be your whispers; when I see a dazzling sunset, it will be your image in the sky.”
― Message in a Bottle
― Message in a Bottle
“As the sky prepares to settle its tired, aching feet
into the night’s velvet slippers
I settle, into my armchair, soaking the teabag,
of my thoughts, into warm liquidy stars.”
― A touch, a tear, a tempest
into the night’s velvet slippers
I settle, into my armchair, soaking the teabag,
of my thoughts, into warm liquidy stars.”
― A touch, a tear, a tempest
“As I looked out at the water, I realized there was nowhere to go, nowhere left to run. And I just had to stay here, facing this terrible truth. I felt, as more tears fell, just how tired I was, a tiredness that had nothing to do with the hour. I was tired of running away from this, tired of not telling people, tired of not talking about it, tired of pretending things were okay when they had never, ever been less than okay.”
― Second Chance Summer
― Second Chance Summer
“You know how sometimes you lie in bed at night and think, “What if the law of gravity just wears out and lets go and I drift into space?” Does that ever make you anxious?”
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“I was fine before you came into my life. And I bet I’ll be just fine without you in it again.”
― Restart
― Restart
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