45 Mercy Street

“Her lucidity was the raw brightness of the moonlight itself;”

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.”

“Want everything. Sky, wine, books, love.”

““When you need to be loved, you take love wherever you can find it. When you are desperate to be loved, feel love, know love, you seek out what you think love should look like. When you find love, or what you think love is, you will lie, kill, and steal to keep it. But learning about real love comes from within. It cannot be given. It cannot be taken away. It grows from your ability to re-create within yourself, the essence of loving experiences you have had in your life.” — Iyanla Vanzant”

“I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore.”

“I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do; I learned to suspect that anyone and everyone is capable of ‘living a lie’. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.”

“Just as life had been strange a few minutes before, so death was now as strange. The moth having righted himself now lay most decently and uncomplainingly composed. O yes, he seemed to say, death is stronger than I am.”

“There’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.”

“She had such a thirst for destruction,”

“Years pass. I don’t solve anything. Someone breaks the images and they break again, I hear the identity of the song. The song is passing like a wave.”

“Have enough courage to trust love one more time. And always one more time.”

“What if I never forget you? What if, for the rest of my life when I meet someone new, I can never fall for them because they aren’t you?”

In March I’ll be rested, caught up and human.