moonie

“i am growing flowers
in the darkest part of my heart
for if light ever enters
it would know where to start”
― Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon

“You think of love as dizzy electricity. You think if you aren't in this heightened state, that the relationship is failing. This is a lie, an infection you contracted from popular music and fantasy reels, that doomed all your short romances in the academy, like with poor Sri. The bonded support you and Kodiak feel for each other isn't about skin skin skin, though it's related to that. It isn't the heat of his body against yours at the bottom of the water tank. Instead, it's the fact that you two are together at the bottom of the water tank.”
― Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

“I would light the world on fire just to dance in the flames with you”
― Edgar Holmes, For When She's Feeling Blue

“All the world is moving, even sand from one shore to another
is being shuttled. I live my life half afraid, and half shouting
at the trains when they thunder by. This letter to you is both.”
― Ada Limon, The Carrying