Wrecks

To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. - Mary Oliver


I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am. - Sylvia Plath


Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do no let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration, for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists… it is real… it is possible… it’s yours. - Ayn Rand


All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of mutual possession might have been assuaged only by our actually imbibing and assimilating every particle of each other’s soul and flesh.- Vladimir Nabokov


I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me. - F. Scott Fitzgerald


I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life. - F. Scott Fitzgerald