a snake
will say it loves you

"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery."

Dante Alighieri

"We are like roses that have never bothered to
bloom when we should have bloomed and
it is as if
the sun has become disgusted with
waiting"

Charles Bukowski

"I have so much of you in my heart."

John Keats, July 10, 1819

"It’s the oldest story in the world. One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life."

Nathan Scott

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

Oscar Wilde

"You hope, and you dream. But you never believe that something’s gonna happen for you. Not like it does in the movies. And when it actually does, you want it to feel different, more visceral, more real. I was waiting for it to hit me, but it just wouldn’t happen."

The Beach, 2000

"I do not care what car you drive. Where you live. If you know someone who knows someone who knows someone. If your clothes are this year’s cutting edge. If you are A list or B list or never heard of you list. If your trust fund is unlimited. I only care about the words that flutter from your mind. They are the only thing you own. The only thing I will remember you by. I will not fall in love with your bones or skin. I will not fall in love with the places you have been. I will not fall in love with anything but the words that flutter from your extraordinary mind."

Andre Jordan

"This morning, with her, having coffee."

Johnny Cash, when asked for his definition of paradise