Brandi M

“I don't write about you because you don't deserve to be immortalised in my words.
I'll leave you to float around in my mind until forgetfulness comes to take you away.”
― J.A. ANUM

“I long for you; I who usually longs without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“I was never going to know what Keats knew before he was twenty-five, that “any set of people is as good as any other.” Now there was a Shakespearean life. Keats occupied his own experience to such a remarkable degree, he needed only the barest of human exchanges to connect with an inner clarity he himself had achieved. For that, almost anyone would do. He lived inside the heaven of a mind nourished by its own conversation. I would wander for the rest of my life in the purgatory of self-exile, always looking for the right person to talk to. This”
― Vivian Gornick, The Odd Woman and the City

“My old man used to say one must be careful not to become that which they run from.”
― Calvin Demmer, Through the Ravenous Night We Ride