Fata viam invenient.

Ad Finem Fidelis.

“I feel lonely for the sound of your voice.” - Anne Clarke

“…People who know me well enough to know that I am a collage of failures with some really good intentions.” - Hanif Abdurraqib

“Crawl inside this body - find where I am most ruined, love me there.” - Rume Lazuli

“The strength of a person’s spirit would then be measured by how much ‘truth’ he could tolerate, or more precisely, to what extent he needs to have it diluted, disguised, sweetened, muted, falsified.” - Fredrich Nietzsche

“And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself because I could find no language to describe them in.” - Jane Austin

Per Ardua ad Astra.

“I killed a plant once because I gave it too much water. Lord, I worry that love is violence.” - José Olivarez

“I just want a humble, murderously simple thing: that a person be glad when I walk into the room.” - Marina Tsvetaeva

“I’ve never been free in my whole life. Inside I’ve always chased myself.” - Clarice Lispector

“I confuse instinct for desire - isn’t bite also touch?” - Natalie Diaz

“May you always do what you’re afraid to do.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“On the train we swapped seats, you wanted the window and I wanted to look at you.” - Mahmoud Darwish

“Keep a little fire burning. However small. However hidden.” - Cormac McCarthy

“Your pillows are made of violets and your bed of roses, night after night I’ve longed for you.” - Nikos Kazantzakis

“I don’t know how to become one with you. If you’re heaven, then tell me. I will kneel to every god. If you’re hell, then tell me. I will fill the earth with sin.” - Abdulla Pashew

“I have passed by many eyes, but I only got lost in yours.”

“No artist tolerates reality.” - Fredrich Nietzsche

“I’ll come around if you ever want to be in love.” - James Bay

“Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.” - Selma Lagerlöf

“Your dark gardens inviting me to ruin.” - Caitlin Bailey

“Because he is a thing that bites and you are a thing that has learned to be bitten.”

“Please linger near the door uncomfortably instead of just leaving.” - Mikko Harvey

“You will find me when you return, even if you’re a thousand years late.” - Dulce Maria Loynaz

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride.” - Pablo Neruda

“My heart knows how to wait for that which it loves.” - e.v.e.

“I wouldn’t trade my solitude for a little love. For a lot of love…yes. But a lot of love is itself a kind of solitude.”

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.” - Mary Oliver

“I will be everywhere you look but nowhere to be found and that will be my revenge.” - Aurora Raine

“I was ashamed of myself when I realized life was a costume party, and I attended with my real face.” - Franz Kafka

“What a marvelous feeling it would be, if we could say exactly how we felt. What a monumental victory. What a terrifying thought.” - Akif Kichloo

“You said you loved me, as you plucked the feathers from my wings. One by one you plucked as I screamed yet You insist that you love me. But I love you and I’ve never heard you scream.” - A. Aventine

“The highest form of love is consideration. When someone thinks about how things would make you feel. Pays attention to detail. Holds you in regard when making decisions that could affect you. In any bond, how much they care about you can be found in how much they consider you.” - Kira J