caterpillar…

Imagine yourself a caterpillar. There’s this awful shrug, and then suddenly you’re beautiful for as long as you live.

stephen dunn

hope…

Hope is not about proving anything. It’s about choosing to believe this one thing: that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us.

anne lamott

preference…

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

kurt vonnegut

smoke…

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away; that’s when you get shooting stars.

nabokov