“ Precipitate as weather, she appeared from somewhere, then evaporated, leaving only memory. ”
“ Always learn poems by heart,” she said. “They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they’ll make your soul impervious to the world’s soft decay. ”
- Janet Fitch,
White Oleander (via
litverve)
“ Life shrinks or expands according to one’s courage. ”
“ Where do the words go
when we have said them? ”
“ Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone. ”
“ Some fall in love.
I shatter. ”