CrystalFox

“you want to be loved if only to prove it possible: to tell the world that someone saw you as a conquest & came back alive. that above all else, you are worthy of the risk, the effort. you want someone to serve you the evidence: you are not as damned as you think you are. you are not as damned as you think you are.”
― silas denver melvin

“Forgive me, distant wars, for bringing flowers home.”
― Wisława Szymborska, View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

“It's time for a story. I know, I know, the night is noisy. Don't be afraid. The storm rises on its hind legs, bats our tiny house in its paws - but the smaller a mouse is, the more likely iy is to escape. Here, we slip through the cracks of the world.”
― Kirsty Logan, A Portable Shelter

“They say the best blaze burns brightest, when circumstances are at their worst.”
― Howl's Moving Castle