"father.  you always call to say nothing in particular.  you ask what i'm doing or where i am and when the silence stretches like a lifetime between us i scramble to find questions to keep the conversation going.  what i long to say most is.  i understand this world broke you.  it has been so hard on your feet.  i don't blame you for not knowing how to remain soft with me.  sometimes i stay up thinking of all the places you are hurting which you'll never care to mention.  i come from the same aching blood.  from the same bone so desperate for attention i collapse in on myself.  i am your daughter.  i know the small talk is the only way you know how to tell me you love me.  cause it is the only way i know how to tell you."
-milk & honey by rupi kaur

"it has been a beautiful
fight

still
is."
-You Get So Alone at Times by Charles Bukowski

"Listen to the mustn'ts, child.  Listen to the don'ts.  Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts.  Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me...anything can happen, child.  Anything can be."
-Listen to the Mustn'ts by Shel Silverstein

"It's been a beautiful
fight

still
is."
-You Get So Alone at Times by Charles Bukowski

"But our church shall be the starry night, / Our altar the grassy earth outspread, / And our priest the muttering wind."
-Percy Bysshe Shelley