Hayla

“The kind of hope I have doesn’t begin and end with demanding everything go back to the way it was when it can’t, it can’t ever, that’s not how time works.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Past Is Red

“Ordinarily the death of a cat means little to most men, a lot to fewer men, but to me, and that cat, it was exactly and no lie and sincerely like the death of my little brother - I loved Tyke with all my heart”
― Jack Kerouac, Big Sur

“A man’s voice filled up my head from my jawbone up to the plates of my skull. The most beautiful and saddest voice that ever was... A voice like the whole old world calling up from the bottom of the sea. The man on Madeline Brix’s tape was saying he was happy, and he hoped I was happy, too.”
― Catherynne M. Valente

“This getting up early,’ he moaned, ‘makes a man quite melancholy.”
― Coleridge Cook, The Meowmorphosis