"If You Can Love Someone With Your Whole Heart, Even One Person, Then There's Salvation In Life. Even

Shams smiled fleetingly. “Every man has a degree of womanliness inside.”

“Even the ones who are manly men?”

“Especially those, my dear,” Shams said, garnishing his words with a wink and dropping his voice to a whisper, as if sharing a secret.

—The Forty Rules of Love

In order to flee from the past and reach the future, we forget to live in the present.

It was just a good joint, good conversations and a good fuck

Then why did my inner child feel safe with you?

I wonder if we ever think of each other at the same time

When I was in school, I started writing short stories. Then, I wrote poetry. But what I really want to write is a novel. A long tale, in which I can find myself. But it never happens. Every time I sit down to write...it turns into poetry.

—Cobalt Blue(2022).

"It's just that I need to speak to someone.

Not someone. You"

—One Day

I hated you for a long time. From the time I was little, I used to think that I didn't belong in such a miserable little place, that I was someone who deserved to be in more comfortable circumstances. I felt it was unfair for you to treat me as you did. My classmates all seemed to be living happy, satisfying lives. Kids whose gifts and talents were far inferior to mine were having much kore fun than I was every day. I used to seriously wish that you were not my father. I imagined that this had to he some mistake; you couldn't possibly be my real father; there couldn't be any blood relationship.

—Tengo

Haruki Murakami, 1Q84, Book 2

si vis amari, ama ‘If you wish to be loved, love'

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”

—

Mr. Knightley, Emma (2020)

another reason why i feel single—

it’s not mr. darcy but mr. knightley-

- trix, feb 11 2022

lovers in the garden