"I want to remember to notice the wonders of each day, in each moment, no matter where I am under any circumstance."

"You must make love to him like his touch is your salvation."

"When you think your life is falling apart, it's usually falling together in disguise."

"I took a breath and let it go and suddenly the air was crisper and my lungs lighter and suddenly there was him saying my name in different ways and I catch myself throwing glances in the mirror, seeing someone I don't know quite yet but I can't wait to, and that is the start of everything."

"Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others."

"It's 4am again and I'm just getting started. People are boring and I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed, bleed through my words. I want to get all fucked up and write real and raw and ugly and beautifully. I bet you're sleeping safe and calm, and you can stay there, it's safer there, and you wouldn't stand one night on this journey my mind wanders off to every night you close your eyes. I'll stay here one day and I will never come down. I promise I can fly before I hit the ground. It doesn't even hurt anymore. I swear, it doesn't hurt."

"I never said it was easy to find your place in this world, but I'm coming to the conclusion that if you seek to please others, you will forever be changing because you will never be yourself, only fragments of someone you could be. You need to belong to yourself, and let others belong to themselves too. You need to be free and detached from things and your surroundings. You need to build your home in your own simple existence, not in friends, lovers, your career or material belongings, because these are things you will lose one day. That's the natural order of this world. This is called the practice of detachment."

"The sky was so blue I couldn't look at it because it made me sad, swelling tears in my eyes and they dripped quietly on the floor as I got on with my day. I tried to keep my focus, ticked off the to-do list, did my chores. Packed orders, wrote emails, paid bills and rewrote stories,but the panic kept growing, exploding in my chest. Tears falling on the desktick tick tickme not making a soundand some days I just don't know what to do. Where to go or who to see and I try to be gentle, soft and kind,but anxiety eats you up and I just want to be fine."

"I am constantly torn between the will to be seen and still hidden so god damn well, a contradiction I never figured out."

"People who truly live their lives don't have time to complain or judge others. They're too busy enjoying life and love and everything in between!"

"This morning I woke up before the alarm clock went off and the sky outside was a big red ocean. You're beautiful when you're sleeping so I spent an hour observing the way you breathe. Inhale, exhale, without a thought of tomorrow. The window was open and the air was so crisp and I couldn't imagine how to ever ask for more than this."

"This world can be quite wonderful once you let yourself be a part of it. It's on your side, you know?"

"6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days,and I still don't know which month it was thenor what day it is now.Blurred out linesfrom hangovers to coffeeanother vagabond lost to love."

"I'm fighting my way into existence, and I will keep doing so until the end of time."

"I was stressed and scared and I had to hurry to be someone, become something, do something. I was running and talking and cursed myself when I wasted my time on things that wouldn't get me anywhere. It was work and it was money and I was never where I was, always somewhere else in my head far, far away."

"Throwing yourself into the purse of a dream is the biggest adventure you can take on."

"So I was a stone in the sea. Gravity gave up on keeping me above the surface. I did not try to swim and so I sank to the bottom with no will to turn back. I'm tired, I told him. I'm done.But he wouldn't let me and he held me up even on his hardest days and he was a lighthouse when all I saw was darkness."

"I have found no other cure for loneliness than to befriend it."

"I was a flower that bloomed and sparked way too fast. He took me in 'cause I was pretty in all kinds of colors but way too soon I stood on his table sad and dried up. I forgot to nourish myself and the sun never shone from my sky."

"I said I love you so much it's killing meand you kept saying sorryso I stopped explainingfor it never made sense to youwhat always did to meto let what you love kill youand never regret. As Romeo is dying Juliet saysI am willing to die to remain by your sideand love was never a static place of restbut the last second of euphoriawhile throwing yourself out from a 20 store windowto be able to sayI flew before I hit the ground,and it was glorious.Don't be sorry.The fall was beautiful, dear.The crash was beautiful."

"My wish has always been to write my own story, to create a life that's worth writing about. But is a story worth anything at all if I have no one to tell it to?"

"You smoked another cigarette and we shared another coffee and it was just another morning that made me realise that this is all it takes to be happy."

"I am a worried person with a stressed out soul, living a simple life with no capital."

"I thought that if I owned nothing, had nothing, was nothing, I would have nothing left to lose, and I wouldn't be scared anymore. Because my whole life I've been so damn scared. Scared to live because I was scared to die. But at the same I was so scared of living, so I wanted to die. Or maybe so scared of dying that I refused to live. You don't have to be afraid to fall, when you're already on the ground. You don't have to be scared to lose someone, when there's no one around to lose."

"It's the smell of him in the bathroom, all I need to get ready for the day. Watching him get dressed, and the sound in the kitchen; a slow hum of a song and his movements, picking things to eat. The way I could observe him, for hours, just go on with his day " or as he sleeps " simply breathing in and out, in and out, and it's like the hymn that sings me to peace. I know the world is still out there and I know I'm not yet friendly to its pace, but as long as I know him with me, here, there, somewhere " us " I know I have a chance."

"I am not a broken heart. I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn't know how to handle anything,at any time,and I am not your fault."

"Fear is the thing that makes the heart grow."

"I believe in knowing who you are but without limiting yourself to your own expectation of who you are."

"There are very few friends that will lie down with you on empty streets in the middle of the night, without a word. No questions, no asking why, just quietly lay there with you, observing the stars, until you're ready to get back up on your feet again and walk the last bit home, softly holding your hand as a quiet way of saying "I'm here.It was a beautiful night."

"It all takes time and lessons and places, but I'm learning to listen to my restless heart, telling me to "go, go, go!"

"I want my life to be the greatest story. My very existence will be the greatest poem.Watch me burn.Love always, Charlotte."

"And this is what being an artist means, being a poet? To sacrifice yourself for your art, sacrifice your heart for your art, because it's only through something broken that something beautiful can grow."

"When you forget about the how, go back to the why."

"Dear me, one day I'll make you proud."

"So now it's this thing I do.I go away, ever so often, by myself, for myself,to new places with foreign streets I haven't walked yet,and there I wander, up and down, watching people going places I don't knowand it always hits me that they're never alone,always with someone,and I wonder how they would spend a day all on their own in a foreign city with nothing to do and no one to see,and I wonder if they'd be happy.Just simply being free,like I am trying to be.Happy.Just simply being me."

"So you will meet many 'someones' who will give a new definition to your name. And you can not build walls, must not close the door and please don't hide,because if you ask me about hurt and loveI will say love. Love because the hurt will come and go no matter what, but only love makes it worth while. Only love can cure it. Don't be scared. Go. Love."

"My favorite place in the world is next to you."

"You were the hardest year of my life and I've never been so happy. What does that say about me?"

"I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today."

"The world is filled with so many beautiful people after all and who am I to think that you will hold on, hold on to me, because who am I and what are we?"

"Hurting people you love is the heaviest kind of regret."

"I think I'm learningthat sometimes the bravest thing is not to face the world,but to turn away from it."

"Some people make you want to be a better person, and that, for me, is the purest form of love."

"Everything changed when I learned to honour my body instead of fighting it. When I learned to take care of it, like a precious castle to protect this weary heart. To stop harming it, punishing it for looking like this or that, feeling like this or that. I don't look like they all told me I had to do, but I'm healthy and strong and vital. That is enough."

"I didn't do music to live, I lived so that I could do music."

"So I forced myself to step out of my comfort zone and go out and connect with people. I realised that no one knew me here. I could become whoever I wanted to be for these people, and that became my courage."

"I seek the city because there is nothing sweeter than not being alone in your loneliness."

"Find what makes you happy and go for it with all your heart. It will be hard, but I promise it will be worth it."

"You will never see me surrender, never see me cry, but you will often see me walk away. Turn around and just leave, without looking back."

"My writing, it's my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may I never feel content " please, let me always have the need, always have the urge to write."