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happy halloween!!

“…And let your desire, deep like the shade of a walnut tree,
bend
and flood us with your lavish hair
from the down of the kiss to the leaves of the heart.”

— Giorgos Seferis

( Photo by Pino Leone )

“I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.”

― Pablo Neruda

( Noritoshi Hirasawa - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow )

“Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies.
And be it gash or gold it will not come
Again in this identical disguise.”

― Gwendolyn Brooks

“In a person’s lifetime there may be not more than half a dozen occasions that he can look back to in the certain knowledge that right then, at that moment, there was room for nothing but happiness in his heart.”

― Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

( ph. Léon Herschtritt, Amoureux de Paris, 1960 )

“Cherish those people who have the ability to touch you and still be thousands of miles from your presence.”

— Rachel Wolchin

“I want you to know that it is not always easy to love me. That sometimes my chest is a field full of landmines, and where you went last night, you can’t go tomorrow. There is no manual, there is no road map, no help line you can call; my body does not come with instructions, and sometimes even I don’t know what to do with it. This cannot be easy. But still, you touch me anyway.”

— Ivan E. Coyote

( ‘I Give You My Heart’ by TheOrdinaryYoungMan)

“This is how we heal.
I will kiss you like forgiveness. You
will hold me like I’m hope. Our arms
will bandage and we will press promises
between us like flowers in a book.
I will write sonnets to the salt of sweat
on your skin. I will write novels to the scar
of your nose. I will write a dictionary
of all the words I have used trying
to describe the way it feels to have finally,
finally found you.
And I will not be afraid
of your scars.
I know sometimes
it’s still hard to let me see you
in all your cracked perfection,
but please know:
whether it’s the days you burn
more brilliant than the sun
or the nights you collapse into my lap
your body broken into a thousand questions,
you are the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.
I will love you when you are a still day.
I will love you when you are a hurricane.”

— Clementine von Radics

“We never stop loving silently those we once loved out loud.”

— Marina Abramović

( ‘A Love That Burns’ by The Ordinary Young Man)

“All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where are you…and what am I supposed to be doing? I Love you…My soul is yours. I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there with you.”

— Rumi

“[Blue] is a word. Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. There are seven words that will make a person love you. There are ten words that will break a strong man’s will. But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is the fire itself…Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating…But there are other ways to understanding…”

― Patrick Rothfuss

“I hope that in the future they invent a small golden light that follows you everywhere and when something is about to end, it shines brightly so you know it’s about to end.

And if you’re never going to see someone again, it’ll shine brightly and both of you can be polite and say, “It was nice to have you in my life while I did, good luck with everything that happens after now.”

And maybe if you’re never going to eat at the same restaurant again, it’ll shine and you can order everything off the menu you’ve never tried. Maybe, if someone’s about to buy your car, the light will shine and you can take it for one last spin. Maybe, if you’re with a group of friends who’ll never be together again, all your lights will shine at the same time and you’ll know, and then you can hold each other and whisper, “This was so good. Oh my God, this was so good.”

— Iain Thomas

“I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.”

― Jess C. Scott

“ You loved me the other day. You wanted me to sit beside you…Didn’t I feel it- didn’t I know? There’s something between us - a sort of pull. Something you always do to me and I to you.“

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“This is a roadside attraction,…One of the finest. Which means it is a place of power.”

― Neil Gaiman

“You’re paved in my heart like an old road. Like the pebbles in a pebble field, dirt in dirt, dust in dust, cobwebs in cobwebs.”

― Kyung-Sook Shin

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”

― Maya Angelou

“May your love for me be
Like
The scent of the evening sea

Drifting in
Through a quiet window

So i do not have to run
Or chase or fall
…to feel you

All i have to do
Is
Breathe.”

— Sanober Khan

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