"Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distance star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything"

And there's a dazzling haze, a mysterious way about you, dear Have I known you 20 seconds or 20 years?

don't read the last page 📖

"We were soooooo bored, hideously, tragically bored. Didn't we deserve better? Weren't we the most special thing this place had ever seen?"

"Kissing someone - someone you want to kiss, I mean - is like living inside the best song you ever heard. It's the same feeling"

"I talk to God but the sky is empty"

"But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutterball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love"

I sent you signals and bit my nails down to the quick My face was gray, but you wouldn't admit that we were sick And the air is thick with loss and indecision I know my pain is such an imposition

"I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free"

Oh, what a valiant roar what a bland goodbye the coward claimed he was a lion

"The whole world is divided for me into two parts; one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.."

I'm sittin' eyes wide open and I got one thing stuck in my mind Wonderin' if I dodged a bullet or just lost the love of my life

I don't like how falling feels like flying til the bone crush

"There is no such thing as a happy place. Because when you are happy, everywhere is a happy place. And when you are sad, everywhere is a sad place"

'Cause I don't remember who I was Before you painted all my nights A color I've searched for since

"Later he would say that the Church led him to God, and LSD led him to the universe. He also said that art led him to the devil, and sex kept him with the devil"

Don't want no other shade of blue but you No other sadness in the world would do

"We are all mortal until the first kiss or the second glass of wine"

High infidelity Put on your records and regret me I bent the truth too far tonight I was dancing around, dancing around it

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music"

"When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friends, is a dark side"

"Autumn leaves don't fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar"

It was one drink after another Fuckin' politics and gender roles And you're not sure and I don't know Got swept away in the gray I just may like to have a conversation

Reading books, fantastic books, has been one of the only pure and joyful escapes from a world so hell-bent on destroying the best parts of us.

"Everyone wants to feel like they could destroy a small-to- medium-to-large part of someone who loves them."

There's an ache in you put there by the ache in me But if it's all the same to you It's the same to me So we could call it even You coukd call me babe for the weekend Tis' the damn season

"Love has no weapons; it has no fists. Love does not bruise, nor does it draw blood"

But now I'll go Sit on the floor wearing your clothes All that I know is I don't know How to be something you miss I never thought we'd have a last kiss

"Love is visible-it paints the air between two people a different color, and everyone can see it"

"Yet you could feel a vibration in the air, a sense of hastening. It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem as it was. Now men had walked upon it, rubber treads on a pearl of the gods. Perhaps it was an awareness of time passing, the last summer of the decade"

But now that we're done and it's over I bet it's hard to believe But it turned out I'm harder to forget than I was to leave And, yeah, I bet you think about me

Spineless in my tomb of silence Tore your banners down, took the battle underground And maybe it was egos swinging Maybe it was her

The moon is high Like your friends were the night that we first met Went home and tried to stalk you on the internet Now I've read all of the books beside your bed

A brief interruption, a slight malfunction I'll go back to wanting dudes who give nothing I thought we had no chance And that's romance, let's dance

So now that it's November and the US government is still shut down, SNAP benefits won't go out and a lot of people are going to be hungry. I was watching a YouTube video about this and I thought this comment was good and worth sharing:

The Tortured Poets Department. Would you consider this Taylor's Magnum Opus?

"People would be so much more at ease if they acted on impulse rather than reason. That's why drugs are so effective in curing mental illness-because they impair our judgment. Don't try to think too much"

And the coastal town We never found Will never see a love as pure as it 'Cause it fades into the gray of my day old tea 'Cause it will never be

"We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were"

And all my walls Stood tall painted blue But I'll take 'em down, take 'em down And open up the door for you And all I feel In my stomach is butterflies The beautiful kind, makin' up for lost time

If one thing had been different Would everything be different today?

"Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some ways to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women"

Tell me for real Do you think it's forever? Been number one but I never had two And I can't have fun if I can't have...

"What is the soul? What color is it? I suspect my soul, being mischievous, might slip away while I was dreaming and fail to return. I did my best not to fall asleep, to keep it inside of me where it belonged"

"I hope you will listen to a certain overlooked and different voice within you. Because the human heart, even when it wants to die, quite often wants at the same time to eat some tteokbokki, too." RIP Baek Se-hee

"We didn't so much exist as much as we haunted, and with no one else to haunt, we haunted each other"

But it's never too late to come back to my side The stars in your eyes shined brighter in Tupelo And if you're ever tired of bein' known for who you know You know, you'll always know me Dorothea, uh-uh

"You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal"

"And we hate people for making mistakes so much more than we love them for doing good that the easiest way to live is to do nothing, say nothing, and love no one"

"Generally I find men are a lot more concerned with limiting the freedoms of women than exercising personal freedom for themselves"