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Honor the past, but welcome the future.
— E. E Cummings, ('dive for dreams...') by E. E. Cummings | ('all nearness pauses, while a star...') by E. E. Cummings
And those who expected lightning and thunder are disappointed.
— Czeslaw Milosz, A Song on the End of the World by Czeslaw Milosz
We found a message in a bottle we were drinking.
I stood at one end of the room and watched him. Between us was a bed and a table and things in a hotel--you know, things that are anonymous and belong to no one. Like a sea or a life. And all I remember is how expensive it was. Not the room, but the feeling.
The things I've learned from a broken mirror. How a face can change when a heart knows fear.
— Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, Cecilia And The Satellite
There's bones in my closet, but you hang stuff anyway.
I sent her my warmth and my silence and all she sends me back is rain.
Trauma lives in the sea of my body, awash in the waters of forgetting.
Your touch will never sustain me but I can't help it: I am small and desperate to be fed.
Words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out.
You tell them they must puncture your chest with a straw to suck all the empty out.
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
Once, I saw a bee drown in honey, and I understood.
She did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.
I gave you my heart and it melted in your arms.
I jump from heart to heart, and it's starting to wear me down.
— LANY, The Breakup
You're cold and I burn. I guess I never learn.
You say you love me like you’ve just been reprimanded.
— Banks, Mind Games
She treats it like she would any other chronic illness: as something that's not my fault.
— Christopher Post, My Partner’s Reaction To My Anxiety Made Me Fall Even More In Love With Her