"I don’t know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices under water. They are distorted."

— Jeanette Winterson

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"Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you, that you be my poem,
I whisper with my lips close to your ear.
I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you."

— Walt Whitman, “To You”

(Source: larmoyante)

"And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long."

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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