“And when you win all wars of life, there will remain one you must lose. Time.”

No matter how astray the becoming might be, I’ll never search for the old in me.

Perhaps their voices never leave us and we spend our lives fumbling for quiet corners where we can hear them most.

Lay your head on mine and let me breathe you instead of air.

Refrain from giving pieces of yourself to those who get close, for people leave, and gifts that are given cannot be returned.

I’ve experienced departure far too much to have the courage and call anyone my own.

You’ll roam the world and come to realize: It’s all in you, to be free or not to be.

We reshape our memories into uglier versions because it’s hard to forget them while they’re still beautiful.

This is face blindness, but not really it. Among all the faces I see, I could only see yours.

I’ve always had a fear of endings, but it comes as relief to me that among all the dying things, I am one too.

Where once there were a few houses between us, now there are seas.

I close my eyes and I see you. I open them, and I’m blind.

You float underneath my eyelids – a dream I never seem to get enough of.

Of all the lies I’ve lived, and all the lies I’ve been told, the lies I told myself hurt the most.

If there’s anything I’ve learnt so far, it’s that to love others, you should give them space to breathe.

And it scares me that if I ever get my wings, I might not know where to fly to.

I am grieving a connection that never really happened, a dance of souls that only lasted one day.

We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.

Art is the proper task of life.

Never take yourself too seriously. Laugh, learn, keep it real.

How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.