Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time? My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future. —Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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But, Swan, float lightly because you are a swan, because by the exquisite curve of your neck the gods gave you some special favor, and it healed and you sailed onward. Forget the past - what you can of it, and turn about and swim back home to me, to your haven for ever and ever —F. Scott Fitzgerald to Zelda fitzgerald
I’ve memorized all the fish in the sea. I’ve memorized each opportunity strangled and I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love. And I’ve memorized that, too —Charles Bukowski
Few beautiful women were willing to indicate in public that they belonged to someone. I had known enough women to realize this. I accepted them for what they were and love came hard and very seldom. One simply became tired of holding back love and let it go because it needed some place to go. —Charles Bukowski
Oh, we’re better than that? Because it feels to me like we’re fucking dying here! We are not talking, we are not fucking, nothing is happening —Californication
It was wonderful to sit with her head on my shoulder for hours and feel as I always have, even now, closer to her than to any other human being. And I wouldn’t mind a bit if in a few years you and I could snuggle up together under a stone in some old graveyard here. That is really a happy thought and not melancholy at all. —F. Scott Fitzgerald to Zelda Fitzgerald
The kinder ones fucked better, really, and after you were around them a while they seemed beautiful because they were —Charles Bukowski
I kissed him hard. The few people there in the bar must have been thinking that all they were seeing was just a kiss. They didn’t know that this kiss stood for my whole life - and his life, as well. The life of anyone who has waited, dreamed, and searched for love —Paulo Coelho
