“Forgive Me If I Don’t Talk Much At Times. It’s Loud Enough In My Head.”

“Listen closely to the songs I play, because the lyrics speak the words I fail to say.”

— Unknown

Li Qingzhao, tr. by Jiaosheng Wang, from Complete Poems; "Tune: The Pertridge Sky,"

you want me to believe in canon? the thing that killed all my comfort characters?

“𝐼 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑜𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑠𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑚𝑒.”

—Clifton Gachagua

Leaving me was okay. People leave me all the time, I'm used to it. What hurts like hell is when you made me feel so damn special yesterday, and then make me feel so unwanted today.

“I’m not used to being loved. I wouldn’t know what to do.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

"We cling to music, to poems, to quotes, to writing, to art because we desperately do not want to be alone. We want to know we aren't going crazy and someone else out there knows exactly how you're feeling. We want someone to explain the things we can't."

- Unknown

“not all men”

you’re right, my favorite fictional character would never.