Lauren

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they they have to be more creative than they would have imagined in order to communicate. It's the very moment that they have to dig deeper than the surface to find words, and at the same time, it's a moment when they want to communicate very badly. They're digging deep and projecting out at the same time.”
― Anna Deavere Smith, Talk to Me: Listening Between the Lines

“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
― Lemony Snicket

“expect sadness
like
you expect rain.
both,
cleanse you.”
― Nayyirah Waheed