Renata

“we are all connected by the permanence of love and loss, the original inhabitants of the soul.”
― Jackson Galaxy, Cat Daddy: What the World's Most Incorrigible Cat Taught Me about Life, Love, and Coming Clean

“Because, as I would always tell myself so many years later, lying here in my bed: You can't start out again in life, that's a carriage ride you only take once, but with a book in your hand, no matter how confusing and perplexing it might be, once you've finished it, you can always go back to the beginning; if you like, you can read it through again, in order to figure out what you couldn't understand before, in order to understand life, isn't that so, Fatma?”
― Orhan Pamuk, Sessiz Ev

“XXXVII. If I shouldn't be alive When the robins come, Give the one in red cravat A memorial crumb. If I couldn't thank you, Being just asleep, You will know I'm trying With my granite lip!”
― Emily Dickinson, Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete

“A lack of love means not receiving the five A’s of adult love: attention, acceptance, appreciation, affection, and allowing us to be ourselves.”
― David Richo, When the Past Is Present: Healing the Emotional Wounds that Sabotage our Relationships