Adee

“my mother, poor fish,
wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a
week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!
why don't you ever smile?"

and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the
saddest smile I ever saw”
― Charles Bukowski

“Maybe we are all cabinets of wonders.”
― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

“In a time of destruction, create something.”
― Maxine Hong Kingston

“Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.”
― Jorge Luis Borges