I meant it when I said I didn’t believe in love at first sight. It takes time to really, 

truly fall for someone. Yet I believe in a moment. 

A moment when you glimpse the truth within someone, 

and they glimpse the truth within you. 

In that moment, you don’t belong to yourself any longer, not completely. 

Part of you belongs to him; part of him belongs to you. 

After that, you can’t take it back, no matter how much you want to, 

no matter how hard you try. 

Claudia Gray, A THOUSAND PIECES OF YOU 

The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.

E.E. Cummings

There is nothing softer than your heart.

Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin 

more than moderation

You keep telling me about moderation. That a little is enough. 

But sometimes for some of us, a little is not enough. 

Because, when it comes to something like wild walks or vulnerability or truth or heart - racing conversation or ecstatic contemplation or mind bending intimacy 

or all that catapults us into the flow, form and timelessness of our own aliveness, 

I am telling you that we deserve more than moderation.

Victoria Erickson

Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, 

great memory….everything is forgotten, even a great love. 

That’s what’s sad about life, and also what’s wonderful about it. 

There is only a way of looking at things, a way that comes to you every once in a while. That’s why it’s good to have had love in your life after all, 

to have had an unhappy passion- 

it gives you an alibi for the vague despairs we all suffer from.

Albert Camus, A Happy Death