― Antoine De Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Maya C. Popa, from “Spring”, Wound Is the Origin of Wonder

-Anaïs Nin, 1939

Concept art for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

— Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

I cant love you how you want me to

oh im gonna be weird about this for so long

There’s an ache of eighteen. In the back of the car with your mother. In your childhood friend’s home. In hallways you’ve walked a thousand times. In the shortcut home from school. In the marks on the wall long outgrown. In your last assignment. In packing your life into boxes. In a space with people you grew up and apart with. This will not come again.

Life returns to fleeting moments that must be gripped tightly for fear of losing them; you return to the kitchen floor.

The edge of childhood. Please take my hand. Please don’t let go.