Falling_with_the_leaves

“So, you don’t think I’m strange?' he asks after a while.
Suddenly, remembering why we’re in this situation, I snort to show him that I’m in no mood for a serious conversation. 'No. I’m the strange one.'
'No. You’re not.' He’s serious and looking straight at me. 'I think you’re unhappy and don’t know how to handle it.”
― Nikki Rae, Sunshine

“she’s got us all sorts of fucked up.”
― Meagan Brandy, Trouble at Brayshaw High

“That’s the thing about Raven Carver, she does whatever the hell she wants,”
― Meagan Brandy, Trouble at Brayshaw High

“We, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight
live coiled in shells of loneliness
until love leaves its high holy temple
and comes into our sight
to liberate us into life.

Love arrives
and in its train come ecstasies
old memories of pleasure
ancient histories of pain.
Yet if we are bold,
love strikes away the chains of fear
from our souls.

We are weaned from our timidity
In the flush of love's light
we dare be brave
And suddenly we see
that love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.”
― Maya Angelou