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  • #1
    Rudy Francisco
    “Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense?”
    Rudy Francisco

  • #2
    Warsan Shire
    “My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #3
    Warsan Shire
    “two people who were once very close can
    without blame
    or grand betrayal
    become strangers.
    perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #4
    Warsan Shire
    “With you, intimacy colours my voice.
    even ‘hello’ sounds like ‘come here'.”
    Warsan Shire
    tags: love

  • #5
    Warsan Shire
    “I belong deeply to myself.”
    Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

  • #6
    David Levithan
    abstraction, n.

    Love is one kind of abstraction. And then there are those nights when I sleep alone, when I curl into a pillow that isn't you, when I hear the tiptoe sounds that aren't yours. It's not as if I can conjure you up completely. I must embrace the idea of you instead.”
    David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

  • #7
    Anna Akhmatova
    “You will hear thunder and remember me,
    and think: she wanted storms...”
    Anna Akhmatova

  • #8
    Anna Akhmatova
    “Your voice is wild and simple.
    You are untranslatable
    Into any one tongue.”
    Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

  • #9
    Marilyn Hacker
    “You happened to me.
    You were as deep down as I’ve ever been.
    You were inside me like my pulse.”
    Marilyn Hacker

  • #10
    Frank O'Hara
    “I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.”
    Frank O'Hara

  • #11
    pleasefindthis
    “This is why it hurts the way it hurts.

    You have too many words in your head. There are too many ways to describe the way you feel. You will never have the luxury of a dull ache.

    You must suffer through the intricacy of feeling too much.”
    pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You

  • #12
    Maggie O'Farrell
    “What are you supposed to do with all the love you have for somebody if that person is no longer there? What happens to all that leftover love? Do you suppress it? Do you ignore it? Are you supposed to give it to someone else?”
    Maggie O'Farrell, After You'd Gone

  • #13
    “I get crazy in a bookstore. It makes my heart beat hard because I want to buy everything.”
    Reese Witherspoon

  • #14
    Nicholas Sparks
    “Poetry wasn't written to be analysed: it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.”
    Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

  • #15
    Leonard Cohen
    “Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
    Leonard Cohen

  • #16
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Whatever I am, you did it.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #17
    Haruki Murakami
    “If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #18
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #19
    Tana French
    “I wanted to tell her that being loved is a talent too, that it takes as much guts and as much work as loving; that some people, for whatever reason, never learn the knack ”
    Tana French, The Likeness

  • #20
    “It’s worth knowing who’s going to whisper your name when everyone else is screaming.”
    Gregory Sherl

  • #21
    Alexandra Elle
    “The Sun will rise and set regardless. What we choose to do with the light while it's here is up to us. Journey wisely.”
    Alexandra Elle



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