July 2012
“You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what...”
– Douglas Coupland
“You cut up a thing that’s alive and beautiful to find out how it’s alive and why...”
– Clive Barker
“The trouble is that you think you have time.”
– Buddha
“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there...”
– Frida Kahlo
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I saw you like this with your eyes shining, lighting up the wide expanse around you. You were like dust to me; there was always a part of you surrounding my air. I never thought it was possible to feel so attached to someone that I always imagine myself holding his hand. I would catch myself thinking of you in random moments. I would see your eyes in strangers. I would buy a latte and wonder if...
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“I believe in such cartography – to be marked by nature, not just label ourselves...”
– Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
“They danced the distance between our seats, interlocking and unfolding,...”
– poetinside: Hands
“But I would never kiss anyone who doesn’t burn me like the sun.”
– Jens Lekman
“I am drinking you slowly, a waterfall slipping under the cusp of my tongue. I...”
– Talk is Cheap
“You swallowed everything, like distance. Like the sea, like time. In you...”
– Neruda
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7/16/2012 I’m adding this date to my keepsafe as a remembrance of one of the rare moments when I was happy.
“Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (via apoetreflects)
“That evening, as I watched the sunset’s pinwheels of apricot and mauve slowly...”
– Diane Ackerman
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“There’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
but I’m too tough for...”
– Charles Bukowski
“My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what...”
– Jack Kerouac, On the Road 