#comrade katie

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” – Alan W. Watts (The Wisdom of Insecurity)

“Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.” –Joseph Conrad (Heart of Darkness)

“I look at you and a sense of wonder takes me.” –Homer (The Odyssey)

“I miss her, with a never-ending ache that I did not think was possible, that crowds out any other feeling and certainly all my reason, and any good sense.” – Kaitlyn Greenidge (We Love You, Charlie Freeman: A Novel)

“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter)

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.” –Haruki Murakami, (Kafka on the Shore)

“Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.” – Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)

“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.” –Bram Stroker (Dracula)

“Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.” – Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

“The curves of your lips rewrite history.” – Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

“She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.” J.D. Salinger (A Girl I Knew)

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.” -Alfred Tennyson

“In a sense, I’m the one who ruined me: I did it myself.” –Haruki Murakami

“There’s more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.” –John Steinbeck (East of Eden)

“And I thought that maybe there were ghosts inside of me that I hadn’t even met yet.” - Benjamin Sáenz ( Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe)

“I am a collection of dismantled almosts.” – Anne Sexton (A Self Portrait in Letters) 

“ ‘Maybe…you’ll fall in love with me all over again.’

‘Hell,’ I said, ‘I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?’

‘Yes. I want to ruin you.’

‘Good,’ I said. ‘That’s what I want too.’ ”

― Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms)