She was shy, slightly nervous of strangers, secretive and highly intelligent.
Jackie Kay, from Wish I Was Here: Stories; “My Daughter, The Fox,”
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
I am tired of being human. And angry at feeling so much love. Some days I am angry just to be alive.
Clarice Lispector, from “Excess and Privation,” Selected Cronicas
Stay close to anything that makes you glad you’re alive.
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My darling lives in a world that is not mine.
Stevie Nicks (via youwantyourfreedom)
One kind word can warm three winter months.
Japanese proverb
Her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how much she wanted him. No matter what his past was, no matter what he had done. Which was not to say that she would ever let him know, but only that he moved her chemically more than anyone she had ever met, that all other men seemed pale beside him.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, A New Leaf
I have to say to you that I hate it without you. I have to say to you that I love you in life and after death, and that even though I drink I am good. I am not drinking much. I am too lonely even for that.
Dylan Thomas, from a letter to Caitlin Thomas written c. December 1943
—I conversed with you in a dream
– Sappho, If Not, Winter, (tr. by Anne Carson)
I look for you everywhere while finding you nowhere.
Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Nelson Algren featured in “A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren,”
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