"People will love you. People will hate you. And none of it will have anything to do with you."
"There is something about
night-time that seems to
accentuate
everything.
Forgotten feelings
you have buried in
your chest.
The empty space
in the palm of
your hand.
This unspoken hurt
that gnaws on
your bones
and leaves you
aching
for someone to tell you
the secrets of survival."
"Do not fall in love with the sun. You’ll feel warmer than you ever have in your life, but you’ll get burned. Your eyes will take in all of their infinite beauty, but you will go blind. The very flowers that the sun helped grow will wither under their relentless touch."
"You don’t test a gentle person the way that you don’t steep tea for too long. Submerge me and I will imbue, and what was sweet will be bitter. I will be strong on your tongue and unpleasant to the taste, and you’ll regret drowning me in your guile.My gentleness is not for your taking."