Devan

“Even though I outgrew you
like a shrunken sweater,
I still like to open up the closet
in the neglected corner of my room
and reminisce what fit me perfectly once upon a time.”
― Noor Shirazie, Into the Wildfire: Mourning Departures

“This girl who stands so quiet and grave at the mouth of hell. This girl who is all quietness and sanity and innocence. You wondered why I wanted her?”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I wanted to explain myself to myself in an understandable way. I gave shape to my fears and made excuses. I varied my velocities, watched myselves sleep. Something's not right about what I'm doing but I'm still doing it-- living in the worst parts, ruining myself. My inner life is a sheet of black glass. If I fell through the floor I would keep falling.
The enormity of my desire disgusts me.”
― Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

“I knew that what was left of me would always love you, but never in quite the same way.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned