feasting on.

These are the days that must happen to you.

- Walt Whitman


Sometimes it's the smallest thing that saves us: the weather growing cold, a child's smile, and a cup of excellent coffee.

- Jonathan Carroll


We forget we're mostly water till the rain falls and every atom in our body starts to go home.

- Albert Huffstickler


The female doesn't want a rich man, or a handsome man, or even a poet. She wants a man who understands her eyes if she gets sad, and points to his chest and says, 'Here is your home country.'

- Nizar Qabbani


What if, instead of thinking about solving your whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.

- Rainbow Rowell


We don't learn to love each other well in the easy moments. Anyone is good company at a cocktail party. But love is born when we misunderstand one another and make it right, when we cry in the kitchen, when we show up uninvited with magazines and granola bars, in an effort to say, I love you.

- Shauna Niequist


It was like autumn, looking at her. It was like driving up north to see the colors.

- Jeffrey Eugenides