All Day Long There Has Haunted Me

Mahmoud Darwish, from Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems; “The Hoopoe,”

the inherent romanticism of being thought of.

Midsummer’s Eve: A Reverence to Roses - John Henry Lorimer

‘A Room with a View’ by E. M. Forster (published in 1908)

resenting yourself for where you aren’t won’t change where you are.

you can’t hate yourself into healing.

"Life is so largely eating and sleeping and going places without ever getting there."

– Sylvia Plath

You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love-I love-I love you. Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright

What other people think and say about you is none of your business. The most destructive thing you would ever do is to believe someone else's opinion of you. You have to stop letting other people's opinions control you.

— Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

RIP to the opportunities we missed because of shyness and low self esteem.