Laura Ruthers

“For I have known them all already, known them all—
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”
― T.S. Eliot, T. S. Eliot Reading: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Others

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“i will always be the person who went to the grocery store
in cigarette-burned pajamas every day for five months

i will always be the person who wanted to die and didn’t

i will always be the person who lost twenty pounds
in one month and i will always be the person who gained it back

i will always be the person who decided, while crying
in the passenger seat of your car, to be better

i will always be the person who paused
when you first said “i love you”
just to take the moment in

i will always be the person who survived the unsurvivable

i will always be the person who fought like hell for it”
― Joshua Espinoza

“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan