Jen

“MUSIC I heard with you was more than music,
And bread I broke with you was more than bread.
Now that I am without you, all is desolate,
All that was once so beautiful is dead.
Your hands once touched this table and this silver,And I have seen your fingers hold this glass.
These things do not remember you, beloved:
And yet your touch upon them will not pass.
For it was in my heart you moved among them,And blessed them with your hands and with your eyes.And in my heart they will remember always:
They knew you once, O beautiful and wise!”
― Conrad Aiken

“Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“You are not here to be perfect. None of us are. You are here to live.”
― Matt Haig, The Life Impossible

“Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle