I will remember the kisses 

our lips raw with love

and how you gave me

everything you had

and how I, 

offered you what was left of

me, 

and I will remember your small room

the feel of you

the light in the window

your records

your books

our morning coffee

our noons our nights

our bodies spilled together

sleeping

the finy flowing currents

immediate and forever

you leg my leg

your arm my arm

you smile and the warmth

of you

who made me laugh

again.

Charles Bukowski, Raw With Love

winter's coming and you're stuck here

I wanted so badly to lie next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bootom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was dizzle and she was hurricane.

John Green, Looking for Alaska

I'll keep them still

So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. 

And maybe we'll never know most of them.

Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

words to live by

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, 

since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

2 Corinthians 4:18

at first sight

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, 
before a word has been spoken.

Fyodor Dostoyevski, Crime and Punishment

(pic via observando)

VII

love is more thicker than forget

more thinner than recall

more sheldom than a wave is wet

more frequent than to fail

it is most mad and moonly

and less it shall unbe

than all the sea which only

is deeper than the sea

love is less always than to win

less never than alive

less bigger than the least begin

less litter than forgive

it is most sane and sunly

and more it cannot die

than all the sky which only

is higher than the sky.

E. E. Cummings

KISS ME A QUESTION, ask me again with your eyes and I'll answer with my finguers, trailing reasons down your spine. There's a theory behind your knees and a postulate in that sweet spot on your neck, and I'll respond to your query with a smooch and holler, roll you up against the sink and wash your hair, make love till the plates fall off the shelf.

Lou Beach, 420 Characters

The Great Gatsby

... and so with the sunshine and with the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things go fast in movies, I had that similar conviction that life was beginning over again with the Summer.

F. Scott Fritzgerald

I love you without knowing how, why, or even from where. I love you straight forward, without complexities or pride. So close that your hand on my chest is my hand. So close that when you close your eyes, I fall asleep.

Patch Adams

A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants

Lawrence Durrell, Clea (The Alexandia Quartet, IV)

photo by me

The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, 

and so does the feeling that everything you receive in life 

is something you have earned.

Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is illuminated

Alice in Wonderland

 

yeah, it's me

- Chesire Puss - she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider. "Come, it's pleased so far" thought Alice, and went on - would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

- That depends a good deal on where you want to get to - said the cat.

- I don't much care where...- said Alice.

- Then it doesn't matter which way you go - said the cat.

- ... so long as I can get somewhere - added Alice as an explanation.

- Oh, you're sure to do that - said the cat - if you only walk long enough.

Lewis Caroll, Alice in Wonderland