Romeo: But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?

It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

~William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

There were a lot of things I wanted to do.

I wanted to become a teacher, and an astronaut, and a baker…

I wanted to go to a bunch of different donut shops and ask for one of everything!

And I wanted to tell the ice-cream man to give me one of everything too!

I wish I could have five lives!

Then I could have been born in five different towns, and eaten five lifetime’s worth of food, and had five different careers, and fallen in love with the same person, five times.

~Bleach

If she dies, they can close this whole show of a world. They can cart it off, unscrew the stars, roll up the sky and put it on a truck. They can turn off this sunlight I love so much. You know why I love it so much? Because I love her when the sun shines on her. They can take everything away, these carpets, columns, houses, sand, wind, frogs, ripe watermelons, hail, seven in the evening, May, June, July, basil, bees, the sea, courgettes…

~La tigre e la neve

I realised that I’ve always loved you.

Five thousand miles away from you, and yet I couldn’t uncouple my mind from the thoughts of you.

Perhaps we are not too far apart after all.

We might never meet again.

But somewhere out there I loved you and you loved me in return.

Time is nothing.

To see my breath forms before me brings out the child in me.

And the treacherous wind puts a smile on my face, somehow.

Oh the stars in the sky, they remind me of the sparkle in your eyes.

At night, I can almost hear my thoughts in its deafening silence.

But are they really mine?

There isn’t much fanfare.
No pyrotechnics display.
No cheering crowds.
No light shining down from heaven.

Seems like the simplest of miracles;
Yet the most powerful.
Thousands of years of waged wars;
Defied in a split second.
The son comes home to the father.

No pyrotechnics display.
No cheering crowds.
No light shining down from heaven.

But yet unseen by naked eyes;
The whole heaven rejoices.

The whole heaven rejoices.