53 Quotes by Courtney M. Privett

We are meant to love. We are meant to lose. Love is our promise of a bittersweet end, and our desperate, hopeless struggle not to hurt anyone along the way.

There are no stars, no moon, only knots, only the promise of death. Drums cry out in the abyss and then fade with everything else. Even the shadows fade and all that is left is death. We are all dead, we just haven’t figured it out yet.

We were born of stars and in death we will return to them. Let’s not strive to be black holes in the meantime. Let’s illuminate the world instead of darkening it, instead of tearing it to pieces. Let’s prove we are worthy of being stardust.

Keep the people uneducated and underfed and they’ll lavish praise on you for your generosity when you give them a scrap of bread and a pat on the head. Give them more than the minimum and you might find they’re better at your job than you are, because their skills are revealed when they can focus on more than survival.

There is something intimate about playing a duet. It’s touching the soul of another person without ever touching the flesh.

Sometimes we find we love things we never thought we wanted. And then we regret that we never wanted them at all. It’s the fear of change, I think, and dread of the unknown.

I focus on the light I can find, and if I can’t find it, I create it.

Your heartbeat is safe and familiar and all things home. It’s the dance of dust on top of the kitchen cupboards, the wind through the rosemary, the brittle flutter of textbook pages, the embrace of a memory until now forgotten.