

“Once you figure out what matters, you'll figure out how to be brave.”
― The Astonishing Color of After
― The Astonishing Color of After
“Love shouldn’t hinge solely on exposing your physical body to another person. Love was intangible. Universal. It was whatever someone wanted it to be and should be respected as such. For Alice, it was staying up late and talking about nothing and everything and anything because you didn’t want to sleep—you’d miss them too much. It was catching yourself smiling at them because wow, how does this person exist?? before they caught you. It was the intimacy of shared secrets. The comfort of unconditional acceptance. It was a confidence in knowing no matter what happened that person would always be there for you.”
― Let's Talk About Love
― Let's Talk About Love

“There's no point in wishing. We can't change anything about the past. We can only remember. We can only move forward.”
― The Astonishing Color of After
― The Astonishing Color of After

“I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena

“My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.”
― Les Fleurs du Mal
― Les Fleurs du Mal
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