“O YOU whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with you;
As I walk by your side, or sit near, or remain in the same room with you,
Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.”
– Walt Whitman
quotes
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” – Zelda Fitzgerald.
“What is it you women want
you want to be strung up with hoods and gags and blindfolds
stretched out on a board with weights on your chest
you want me to sew your legs to the bed
and pour gasoline on you
and light you on fire
is that what I have to do to keep you?”
– Charles Mee, Big Love.
“so I wait for you like a lonely house
till you will see me again and live in me.
Till then my windows ache.”
– Pablo Neruda
All of this.
“I have no idea what’s awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends.”
―Albert Camus
“When shall we learn, what should be clear as day,
We cannot choose what we are free to love?”
– W. H. Auden, Canzone.
“I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts, but they need constant attention and one day I decided I had better things to do,” – Brian Andreas, Story People.
“She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else.” – Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex.
“It is in these moments of tender and ridiculous nostalgia that I know something inside me is still broken.” – Steve Almond, My Life in Heavy Metal.
“I’m not sentimental–I’m as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last–the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won’t,” F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise.