words

“I was not in the mood for idle conversation. The day had been ugly & my heart was full of hate for everything human.”

The most beautiful

I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.

Dear moon, you were an accident.

“Love will teach you many things, most of them tragic—”

“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”

“What a privilege it was to matter to you.”

“I loved you, I did, I loved you as good as anybody And I’ll never be sorry This is the place I finally learned what it meant To dance alone to the song you put in my chest Thanks for the symphony I can still hear it when I think of you And it is so much like remembering .”

“I would have loved him in any era, in any dark age; I would take him into the twilight and unwind him, slide my fingers through his hair and pull him to his knees. As it is, this afternoon, late in the twentieth century, I sit on a chair in the kitchen with my keys in my lap, pressing the black button on the answering machine over and over, listening to his message, his voice strung along the wires outside my window where the birds balance themselves and stare off into the trees, thinking even in the farthest future, in the most distant universe, I would have recognized this voice, refracted, as it would be, like light from a small, uncharted star.”

“I am so busy. I am practicing my new hobby of watching me become someone else. There is so much violence in reconstruction. Every minute is grisly, but I have to participate. I am building what I cannot break.”

“I think here I will leave you. It has come to seem there is no perfect ending. Indeed, there are infinite endings. Or perhaps, once one begins, there are only endings.”

“I burned so long and so quiet, you must have wondered if I loved you back. I did, I did, I do.”