Jordan Mariah

She smelled of cigarettes and sadness.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter and to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.

She hated being so clumsy with words, when words meant so much.

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

I saw galaxies and stars collide in a blink of your eyes

Of all the things my soul has searched for, never did I believe it would lead me to you.

Silence is beautiful, not awkward. The human tendency to be afraid of something beautiful is awkward.

I think the most beautiful thing about her is her compassion to save the world one little person at a time. I think the second most beautiful thing about her is the fact that you can see the universe in her eyes. You can see when she’s happy; you can see when she’s hurting. And when she talks about her passions or when she’s focused on something else, her eyes never lose their brightness and her lips curl when she speaks. And that’s how I fell in love with her; I fell in love with all her little things. I fell in love with her with my soul; not my hands.