Shamya

“love is lonely
only
when you're in it alone

passion is love
that can't be controlled

who doesn't love Love?
who doesn't Love, love?

in its truest form
it has no form
(or formula)

it doesn't make sense

it just transmits

and that's
just it”
― Jhené Aiko Efuru Chilombo, 2Fish: A Poetry Book

“It seems silly, right? To be crying when everything's fine?'

Well, why not, I figure, because if pain and tears were correlated, surely we would've all drowned by now.”
― Mira T. Lee, Everything Here Is Beautiful

“The thought was this: that all my life had been murk and depths, but I was not a part of that dark water. I was a creature within it.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“They'd both learned that a memory is a fact that has been dyed and trimmed and rinsed so many times that it comes out looking almost unrecognizable to anyone else who was in that room or anyone who was standing on the grass beneath that telephone pole.”
― Mary Beth Keane, Ask Again, Yes