"I want to love more than death can harm. And I want to tell you this often: That despite being so human and so terrified, here, standing on this unfinished staircase to nowhere and everywhere, surrounded by the cold and starless nightwe can live. And we will." Ocean Vuong

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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars. ...Carl Sagan

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"We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should." Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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The difference between my darkness and your darkness is that I can look at my own badness in the face and accept its existence while you are busy covering your mirror with a white linen sheet.

The difference between my sins and your sins is that when I sin I know I'm sinning while you have actually fallen prey to your own fabricated illusions.

I am a siren, a mermaid I know that I am beautiful while basking on the ocean's waves and I know that I can eat flesh and bones at the bottom of the sea.

You are a white witch, a wizard your spells are manipulations and your cauldron from hell yet you wrap yourself in white and wear a silver wig.

C. JoyBell C.

His feelings for Adam were an oil spill he'd let them overflow and now there wasn't a damn place in the ocean that wouldn't catch fire if he dropped a match.

The Raven King, Maggie Stiefvater