“My parents danced together, her head on his chest. Both had their eyes closed. They seemed so perfectly content. If you can find someone like that, someone who you can hold and close your eyes to the world with, then you're lucky. Even if it only lasts for a minute or a day. The image of them gently swaying to the music is how I picture love in my mind even after all these years.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
“I wished a companion to lie near me in the starlight, silent and not moving, but ever within touch. For there is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.”
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“I'm learning that everything doesn't always come back the way you send it. Sometimes, love is more brick and less boomerang.”
― No Gravity
― No Gravity
“Forgive yourself for the decisions you have made, the ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night”
― No Matter the Wreckage: Poems
― No Matter the Wreckage: Poems
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