Where? To evening lands

 

 

Where? To evening lands.

 

James joyce

 

It's almost as though you are sitting by me silent

 

 

It's almost as though you are sitting by me silent, yet telling me so many things. I want just to reach my hand out to you and let you hold it. Can you understand that.

 

- Georgia O'Keeffe, Letter to Paul Strand

 

 

 

The touch of an infinite mystery passes

 

 

The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music. The trees, the stars, and the blue hills ache with a meaning which can never be uttered in words.

 

- Rabindranath Tagore

 

 

 

 

 

In reality I care for a few people very deeply

 

In reality I care for a few people very deeply, thoroughly and enduringly. Certain connections cannot change like that.

 

 

 

How amazing would it be to live next to the ocean

 

 

How amazing would it be to live next to the ocean, wake up every morning and go for a walk on the beach. This is kinda my dream, first thing you hear when u wake up is the ocean and last thing you hear when you go to sleep is the ocean, thats peaceful.

 

 

And your letters, your sweet and dear letters-

 

 

And your letters, your sweet and dear letters-when I read them, I feel like a plant growing in light. And I forget my own shadows.

 

- Kahlil Gibran Letter to Mary Haskell

 

 

 

When I start to write you all I can think

 

 

 

When I start to write you all I can think of to say to you is, Why aren't you here? Oh, why aren't you here?. And I have written that to you before. I have no news, you see or rather, there is news enough, but when I try to write it, it all goes from my mind, and I have nothing to say but that I long to see you.

 

- Edna St. Vincent Millay Letter to Arthur

Davison Ficke, October 1921

 

 

 

There are days when I adore you just a little more

 

 

There are days when I adore you just a little more than a human being can adore and today is one of them.

 

- Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra

 

 

 

There are times in your life

 

 

There are times in your life when being alone becomes the normality. It's so hard to meet people when you don't feel any connection to anyone, but the loneliness gets worse when you stop trying. Maybe you've convinced yourself that you enjoy your solitude. You think that it's just the way it is because maybe there is something wrong with you or maybe you're just meant to be alone. But believe me when I say that you need to feel connected, even if it's something little like smiling with a stranger or catching up an old friend. The worst thing you can do is convince yourself that you're naturally alone or you simply don't belong, because there are people out there who share your interests and thoughts, who wish at night to have a friend like you, who would love and care about you unconditionally if they ever met you. Be open to new people because you never know how much they could change your life.

 

- Note to Self

 

 

 

We never leave a library or a bookstore

 

We never leave a library or a bookstore empty handed, even when our hands are empty.

 

- Kristen Costello