Luiza

“If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

When it is over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.”
― Mary Oliver

“So it is
if the heart has devoted itself to love, there is not a single inch of emptiness. Gladness gleams all the way to the grave.”
― Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2

“and here you are living
despite it all”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers