Kaelyn Merrithew

“We were too close, I thought, I'd never been so close to him except in a dream or when he cupped his hand to light my cigarette. If he brought his ear any closer he'd hear my heart. I'd seen it written in novels but never believed it until now.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Do you wanna leave soon?
No, I want enough time to be in love with everything...
And I cry because everything is so beautiful and so short.”
― Marina Keegan

“Marvel at how she,
the patient gardener, the bringer of sleep,
she who draws the bath and lights the candles,
she who made you someone who could make
himself into someone, she made you want
to live more than anything else, and now
she makes you want to leave the world
because you have seen it.”
― Neil Hilborn, Our Numbered Days

“Where does all our effort go? It’s hard not to envy the monsters when you see how good they have it. And how unbothered they are at being monsters.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!