everything beautiful is sad

"...and here's a secret for you- everything beautiful is sad...gilded with impermanence..."

- john geddes



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so late so soon

"how did it get so late so soon?"

- dr. seuss

no longer children

"when we are no longer children we are already dead"

- constantin brancusi

fly away

"like a butterfly stuck in a chrysalis, waiting for the perfect moment, i was waiting for the day i could burst forth and fly away and find my home"

- emme rollins

how to fly

"the sky is full of dreams, but you don't know how to fly"

- the killers

be the heroine

"above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim"

- nora ephron

jezebel

"who's seen jezebel?

she was born to be the woman we could blame

make me a beast half as brave

i'd be the same"

from the song jezebel by iron and wine

books

"you think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. it was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive"

- james baldwin