Nicole

“You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say ‘Wow, isn’t he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad?’ You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.”
― Warsan Shire

“Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.”
― Andrea Gibson

“te amo como se aman ciertas cosas oscuras,
secretamente, entre la sombra y el alma.”
― Pablo Neruda

“Yes, would have been,' he said sadly. 'He's precisely one of those people of whom they say that they're not meant for this world.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina