“Swim for the music that saves you
When you’re not so sure you’ll survive”
~ Jack’s Mannequin

“exists no miracle mightier than this:to feel”
~ e.e. cummings

“When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
And when he speaks to you believe in him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams
as the north wind lays waste the garden”
~ Kahlil Gibran (The Prophet)

“Go after her. Fuck, don’t sit there and wait for her to call, go after her because that’s what you should do if you love someone, don’t wait for them to give you a sign cause it might never come, don’t let people happen to you, don’t let me happen to you, or her, she’s not a fucking television show or tornado. There are people I might have loved had they gotten on the airplane or run down the street after me or called me up drunk at four in the morning because they need to tell me right now and because they cannot regret this and I always thought I’d be the only one doing crazy things for people who would never give enough of a fuck to do it back or to act like idiots or be entirely vulnerable and honest and making someone fall in love with you is easy and flying 3000 miles on four days notice because you can’t just sit there and do nothing and breathe into telephones is not everyone’s idea of love but it is the way I can recognize it because that is what I do. Go scream it and be with her in meaningful ways because that is beautiful and that is generous and that is what loving someone is, that is raw and that is unguarded, and that is all that is worth anything, really.”
~ Harvey Milk

“It’s hot outside, let me go swimming in your eyes”
~ Dirty Heads

“Des nuits d’amour à ne plus en finir,
Un grand bonheur qui prend sa place,
Des enuis des chagrins, des phases,
Heureux, heureux a en mourir”
~ Edith Piaf