Lina Bulgaria

“When the worst thing that can happen to you does, I try to be a friend.”
― John Waters, Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder

“There was someone I loved who grew old and ill. One by one I watched the fires go out. There was nothing I could do except to remember that we receive then we give back.”
― Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“Eat bread and understand comfort. Drink water, and understand delight. Visit the garden where the scarlet trumpets are opening their bodies for the hummingbirds who are drinking the sweetness, who are thrillingly gluttonous. For one thing leads to another. Soon you will notice how stones shine underfoot. Eventually tides will be the only calendar you believe in. And someone’s face, whom you love, will be as a star both intimate and ultimate, and you will be both heart-shaken and respectful. And you will hear the air itself, like a beloved, whisper: oh, let me, for a while longer, enter the two beautiful bodies of your lungs. 3. The witchery of living is my whole conversation with you, my darlings. All I can tell you is what I know. Look, and look again. This world is not just a little thrill for the eyes. It’s more than bones. It’s more than the delicate wrist with its personal pulse. It’s more than the beating of the single heart. It’s praising. It’s giving until the giving feels like receiving. You have a life—just imagine that! You have this day, and maybe another, and maybe still another.”
― Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“I had believed something probably not true, yet it was wonderful to have believed it.”
― Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver