milk & honey

“And isn’t your deepest pain the greatest gift you can give to anyone—when you slowly release the fingers from what you hold so tightly and invite someone into your vulnerability?”

“Well, if I have the bed all to myself tonight, I'll lay there warm. Until slowly, I feel cold, like I walked into a freezer. My hands will feel like they're full of sand, like when you lay on them wrong. And that feeling will slowly spread across my entire body. Any thought of pain or regret will slip away like a chemical switch. Even though it's quiet in the room, somehow, it gets even quieter.

“You are unique ‘Elio of Earth”. And sometimes unique feels alone. But you are not alone.”

“Never had I felt so alive than when I was close to death!”

“One truly is… the loneliest number.”

“I want to view others whose lives do not fit within our parameters of acceptable. Some see them as flawed. I want to see them as special.”

“I wanted to speak louder than the voices that had told them they were anything less than invaluable.”

“It is only courageous when we know the cost of failure. It is only faith when there is the potential for doubt. And it can only be won when we have to fight for it.”

“the native language whose words I could not understand but whose tones of pleading I could not mistake.”

“It’s tough when what you’ve been doing all along suddenly stops being necessary.”

“One moment you have nothing, the next, you have more than you can cope with.”

“That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.”

“Freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly.

“Why does everybody knowing something make it right?”

“She said ‘True art cannot be understood, but as an artist, I wish some people could understand its meaning and value.’”

“A bit of advice, Mr. Malkiewicz. As someone whom fortune has smiled upon, you should try to refrain from sharing your feelings to those who, like me, are less fortunate. I really wish to empathize with the way you feel, but alas... I can't. There are many who wish to be in your position, myself included, but we aren't so fortunate. Do you understand?”