"I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning."

— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 

"There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors."

— Tennessee Williams 

"Her life improved dramatically when she decided to break the rules, and find beauty where she’d been told there was none."

"I wish I’d done everything on Earth with you."

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

it was one of those unexplainable moments of eye contact that is immediately overanalysed and inevitably misread

“And if I don’t see you no more in this world. I’ll meet you on the next one. But don’t be late, don’t be late…”

"Sometimes I touch the things you used to touch, looking for echoes of your fingers."

— Iain Thomas

"Sometimes I touch the things you used to touch, looking for echoes of your fingers."

— Iain Thomas