you...

I know not the when

or the why of all of this,

I just know it’s you.

— Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson 

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my soul...

And then my soul saw you and it kind of went, ‘Oh, there you are.

 I’ve been looking for you.

— Iain Thomas

Photo by Guy Bourdin, 1971

exit….

I wish you’d find the exit out of my head.

— Sylvia Plath

Kirsten Owen for Emanuel Ungaro F/W 2000

those...

Those who are hardest to love need it the most.

— Socrates 

Cicely Telman in Vogue Paris August 2007 by Max Farago

don't give up...

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.

Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.

— Ella Fitzgerald

'Stranger Than Paradise'
Tilda Swinton photographed by Tim Walker 
W magazine May 2013

colour...

I bought plum blossoms

more for the name

than for the colour;

I buy lipstick that way, too.

In other words,

if it sounds like a poem,

I'll take it.

-Dorethea Grossman, "untitled"
'Comme des Garçons' by Sarah Moon for 10 Magazine F/W 2012

and then...

And then the day came,

when the risk

to remain tight

in a bud

was more painful

than the risk

it took

to Blossom.

— Anaïs Nin, risk

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you...

You can’t just make me different and then leave.

— Looking for Alaska, John Green

Eye of Maria Miles Heyward, ca 1802, Edward Greene Malbone. American Miniaturist (1777 - 1807)

Watercolor on Ivory set in a Gold Ring. (3/8 in / 1 cm)

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i want the be the one...

I want to be

the one

you want in your

mind and your gut and

your bathroom

But I don’t want you

to fuck the whole

world to find out.

— Charles Bukowski 
nadine platzek-  'Nine Muses'

at night...

At night I dream that you and I are two plants that grew together,

roots entwined, and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth,

since we are made of earth and rain.

— Pablo Neruda, Regalo De Un Poeta/ Gift Of A Poet

Gertrud Hegelund by Txema Yeste, Marie Claire Italia April 2013

I sat down and wept...

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful.

But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.
— By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paulo Coelho
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proof...

duane michals

“This photograph is my proof.

There was that afternoon when things were still good between us, and she embraced me, and we were so happy.

It did happen, she did love me. Look see for yourself!”

prize...

Every time you quit, someone else gets your prize.

— Robert T. Kiyosaki
Sarah Moon

I am...

I am not happy.

I am not unhappy.

I am frozen somewhere in the middle that is so much worse.

I am nowhere. Nothing is happening and I am getting more and more sad.

— Samantha Schutz, I Don’t Want to be Crazy

‘Russian Dolls’ Karlie Kloss photographed by Tim Walker for Vogue UK October 2010

I fell...

I fell in love with the world in you.

Noah and the Whale

— Noah and the Whale

Wang Xiao for Elle US march 2013 by Laurie Bartley

I still...

I still cry over her.

Empty palms and rosebushes. 

The day she left 

I clipped all the flowers in my mother’s garden back

and left them to rot 

in a bucket

on our front porch, a weary welcome mat.

Spring reminds me of her fingers and how grass grows,

chilled, without her warm breath.

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Julia Hetta