Maijabeep

“There isn't a story to tell, because a relationship is a story you construct together and take up residence in, a story as sheltering as a house. You invent this story of how your destinies were made to entwine like porch vines, you adjust to a big view in this direction and no view in that, the doorway that you have to duck through and the window that is jammed, how who you think you are becomes a factor of who you think he is and who he thinks you are, a castle in the clouds made out of the moist air exhaled by dreamers.”
― Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding, the third”
― Marge Piercy, Gone to Soldiers

“For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide.”
― James Thurber

“Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.”
― James Thurber, The 13 Clocks