Favorite quotes

"Your value doesn't decrease based on someone's inability to see your worth."

-Author Unknown​

 

"Sometimes burning bridges can be awesome. It prevents you from going back to places you should have never visited to begin with."​

 

"There is a brokenness out of which comes the unbroken,
a shatteredness out of which blooms the unshatterable.

There is a sorrow beyond grief which leads to joy and a fragility out of whose depths emerges strength.

There is a hollow space too vast for words through which we pass with each loss, out of whose darkness we are sanctioned into being.

There is a cry deeper than all sound whose serrated edges cut the heart as we break open to the place inside which is unbreakable and whole, while learning to sing.

~ Rashani"​

 

"Physical attractions are common, but a mental connection is rare."

 

"When I no longer have your heart
I will not request your body
your presence
or even your polite conversation."​

-Alice Walker​

 

"How long has it been since someone touched part of you other than your body?"

-Laurel Hoodwrit​

 

"Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers."

-Veronica A. Shoffstall​

 

"And strum my fingers gently across your skin, like I was playing the slowest love song in the world and only you and I could hear it."​

 

"Your love
Should never be offered to the mouth of a
Stranger,
Only to someone
Who has the valor and daring
To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife
Then weave them into a blanket
To protect you."

-Hafez​

 

"…you curve against me in your sleep
a little like music against silence
a little like color against darkness
I am becoming what you make of me …
turning into you, my heart feels tight
as if your body were a vise
whose stilling lips murder suddenly…"​

derived from E.E. Cummings’ “When My Love Comes To See Me”

 

"It is painfully easy to define human beings. They are beings who, for no good reason at all, create their own unnecessary suffering."

-Natsume Soseki​