I don’t know how to write love letters, but I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you. Since I fell in love with you everything is transformed and is full of beauty... love is like an aroma, like a current, like rain. -Frida Kahlo, 1946

It was all a matter of missed connections, bad timing, blundering in the dark. We were always in the right place at the wrong time, the wrong place at the right time, always just missing each other, always just a few inches from figuring the whole thing out. -Paul Auster

She had never dreamed of what it would feel like to love someone so much; …She thought the tenderness it left in her heart was like a bruise that would never go away, but she would cherish it forever.  -Philip Pullman

You preoccupy my horizon. -Sylvia Plath Ph. Josef Koudelka

There are kisses that produce ravings of burning, mad, loving passion, You know them well, they're my kisses. invented by me, for your mouth. …they carry the furrows of a forbidden love, storm kisses, wild kisses that only our lips have ever tasted. -Gabriela Mistral

If you see me in any of your thoughts, hug me, I miss you. -Julio Cortazar Photography: Yulia Kazban

Remembering when I used to try to be smart, sexy and cute on here. Not sure I ever achieved it. Feeling like it might be worth another attempt.

Fear has always guided me toward what I desire. And because I desire, I fear. Often it was fear that took me by the hand and led me. Fear leads me to danger. And everything I love is risky. -Clarice Lispector

Secrets save me from dissolving. -Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry Photography, Miroslav Tichy

Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own. -Cesare Pavese

Why am I not there? You will ask, why have I not taken that bus that will take me to you? Because the world that I have here will not allow me to be there. Because I torture myself every night thinking of you. Why do I not simply forget about you? -Mario Benedetti 💕💕💕

Frida Kahlo

it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world -Mary Oliver “Invitation”

Let me be your green light- “You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald “The Great Gatsby”

She began her day, as she often did, mourning might-be-lovers and far-away-friends. She mourned the possibilities more than the people. Maybe that was her problem.

He willed his soul into mine

If you see me in any of your thoughts, hug me, I miss you. -Julio Cortazar Photography: Yulia Kazban #missingyou

am i “k” in your book? -Michael Ondaatje, “The English Patient”

It was all a matter of missed connections, bad timing, blundering in the dark. We were always in the right place at the wrong time, the wrong place at the right time, always just missing each other, always just a few inches from figuring the whole thing out. -Paul Auster

Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom -Gabriel Garcia Marquez #birthdaywishes