— V, From “excerpt From A Book I Will Never Write” (via Letsbelonelytogetherr)

“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”

— Mitch Albom

Emily Dickinson, from her poem titled "1188," featured in The Emergency Poet

Joseph Brodsky, from The Selected Poems of Joseph Brodsky; "A Song,"

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Leonard Woolf, featured in The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf

16 April, 1939 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov

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E.E. Cummings, Complete Poems, 1904-1962

Be teachable. You’re not always right.

Skg ❤️