It's been Awhile

“Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.”

“You come home, make some tea, sit down in your armchair and all around there’s silence. Everyone decides for themselves whether that’s loneliness or freedom.”

“She was made of storms and stillness—blue mornings, quiet nights. She held the entire sky in her chest.”

“I hope our daughters are born with so much fire in their souls, they could put volcanoes and stars to shame.”

“I can say with great certainty and absolute honesty that I did not know what love was until I knew what love was not.”

“She wasn’t looking for a knight, she was looking for a sword.”

“You speak almost no words, but your heart screams. And somehow I hear it.”

I asked her if she believed in love, and she smiled and said it was her most elaborate method of self-harm.

“Forget the heartbreak. If you have never fully loved someone, you have never given yourself a chance to live and see the world for what it can be.”

“Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.”

"I would write a million pages about you, and then burn it to make the wind feel the smell of love".

She was much more like fire than light.