Someone to Hold Me

"Stories: the only thing we've got, the arbiters of this human process of rocketing between hope and despair, and it's why every person is vitally important. It's why it doesn't matter if you're a mess, or put together, or even a success according to arbitrary standards; what matters is that you are conscious of the world around you, in all of its terrible beauty."

-Emily Rapp, Someone to Hold Me

How You Survived

"I don't want to hear about the mess because we al know what that looks like. I want to know how you survived."

- Amanda de Cadenet of The Conversation

Safety

“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. 
— George Eliot  

Fog of Hope

Tell me what’s the difference

between hope and waiting.

Because my heart doesn’t know.

It constantly cuts itself on the glass of waiting;

It constantly gets lost in the fog of hope.

— Anna Kamienska, from A Nest Of Quiet 

Still Dear to Him

“She longed to know what at that moment was passing in his mind; in what manner he thought of her, and whether, in defiance of everything, she was still dear to him." 
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Your Dream

"Only the dreamer knows the dream."
-Carl Jung

Instrument

"Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own."

— Kurt Vonnegut