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“But I was young

and didn’t know better

and someone should have told me to capture every second

every kiss & every night

Because now I’m sitting here alone and it’s getting really hard to breath because tears are growing in my throat and they want to break out, but there are people

watching

and I just want to be somewhere silent

somewhere still

But still I don’t want to be alone because I’m scared and lonely

and I don’t understand

Because I was alone my whole life

My whole life

I was so damn lonely and I was content with that

because I liked myself and my own company

and I didn’t need anyone

I thought

But then there was you .. ...

So, someone should have told me that love is for those few brave who can handle the unbearable emptiness,

the unbearable guilt and lack of oneself,

Because I lost myself to someone I love

and I might get myself back one day

but it will take time, it will take time.

This is gonna take some time.

I wish someone would have told me this.

Someone should have told me this.”

― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

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“We’re running out of time, he said.

As if time were the kind of thing you could run out of, as if it were measured into bowls that were handed to us at birth and if we ate too much or too fast or right before jumping into the water then our time would be lost, wasted, already spent.

But time is beyond our finite comprehension. It’s endless, it exists outside of us; we cannot run out of it or lose track of it or find a way to hold on to it. Time goes on even when we do not.”

― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

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“Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.” capodanno

― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird