Karissa

“Moment by moment, maddened by them and melted by them, maddened / melted, maddened / melted, maddened / melted.”
― Helen Phillips, The Need

“But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her,
barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my window
in one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor.
She will look in at me with her thin arms extended,
offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light.”
― Billy Collins, The Art of Drowning

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Everyone’s weird, though. If you’re not even a little weird, you are truly weird. In that bad way. Not in the good way.”
― Maurene Goo, I Believe in a Thing Called Love