Cortney Schmidt

“I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I am not distressed by my own silences. You have a vehement silence, one feels it is charged with essences, it is a strangely alive silence, like a trap open over a well, from which one can hear the secret murmur of the earth itself.”
― Anaïs Nin, Under a Glass Bell

“Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it.”
― Anaïs Nin, In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays

“I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.”
― Anaïs Nin

“For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.”
― Anais Nin, Fire: From A Journal of Love - The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin