I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.
— Nan Goldin
I get it now. I get it. The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.
— John Green and David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
And that taught me you can’t have anything, you can’t have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It’s like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it- but when we do the sunbeam moves onto something else and you’ve got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
she stuck a bookmark
in my heart
and walked away
— saul williams from “she”
