I think the highest purpose of fiction is to show that all people are fundamentally worthy of mercy.

Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything. They make you feel so alive that you’d follow them straight into hell, just to keep getting your fix.

Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

How could I know you fit my body like a glove? You’re destroying me. You’re good for me. You’re destroying me. You’re good for me. I have time. Please, devour me.

Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima mon amour

You were last seen walking through a field of pianos. No. A museum of mouths. In the kitchen of a bustling restaurant, cracking eggs and releasing doves. No. Eating glow worms and waltzing past my bedroom. Last seen riding the subway, literally, straddling its metal back, clutching electrical cables as reins. You were wearing a dress made out of envelopes and stamps, this was how you travelled. I was the mannequin in the storefront window you could have sworn moved. The library card in the book you were reading until that dog trotted up and licked your face. The cookie with two fortunes. The one jamming herself through the paper shredder, afraid to talk to you. The beggar. Hat outstretched bumming for more minutes. The phone number on the bathroom stall with no agenda other than a good time. The good time is a picnic on water, or a movie theatre that only plays your childhood home videos and no one hushes when you talk through them. When you play my videos I throw milk duds at the screen during the scenes I watch myself letting you go — lost to the other side of an elevator — your face switching to someone else’s with the swish of a geisha’s fan. My father could have been a travelling salesman. I could have been born on any doorstep. There are 2,469,501 cities in this world, and a lot of doorsteps. Meet me on the boardwalk. I’ll be sure to wear my eyes. Do not forget your face. I could never.

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I play with the angels at night and bruise their little throats with my finger tips.

Source Unknown

We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.

André Berthiaume

I wanna know if you bleed sometimes through other people’s wounds.

Andrea Gibson

I want
to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.

Pablo Neruda