Margaret Atwood, From "Wilderness Tips," Originally Published In September 1991

Kurt Vonnegut, from Mother Night; "Chapter Six Hundred & Fourty Three,"

Jenny Hval, from Girls Against God

what if, I'm always gonna stay this way? afraid of being someone's person

what if, all my life I just end up seeing everyone else fall in love? and wait for mine but it's never been close?

Will I be too needy and greedy

to be asking for a 50mint long hug?

Cause, I want to be swallowed by the

feeling of warmth in my body

I can feel my heart turning to a stone

Everytime I run towards love, i could

feel my stone cold heart knocking

against my rib cage

it breaks my bones

it hurts a lot

and sit still for a while

until it goes away.

Until I meet someone new

who again makes me want to feel

embrace the warmth.

But the cycle continues.

“Sometimes not telling people anything is a good thing.”

— Jason Myers

[slow dancing, silk textures, hands on her waist, fireworks, velvet touch, euphoric music, black dresses, red roses, moonlit serenade slow songs, lana del rey, letters, lips, forehead to forehead, eye contact, gentleness, candlelit ambiance, whispered secrets, starlit night, soft whispers, vintage charm, lingering perfume, shared laughter, hidden glances, stolen moments, timeless romance.]

The lights almost out now.

― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma

ur early 20s are about being obsessed with kindness and mary oliver and seasonal fruits and recreating comfort foods you ate as a child and learning how to love and crying because you have no choice but to live the life before you and finding god on the bus back from the grocery store