I wanna hold you once before I'm a ghost of a memory 

aseaofquotes:

— Thomas Merton

imaghostofamemory:

iq—187:

_{♟ —       ❝… I’ve been — trying to make any sense of what I did and didn’t see for… weeks. And through theorizing, and — and, philosophizing, rationalizing, still I can’t say I do.❞}

        _{♫—- ❝ I was locked away in a cage, Spencer. And you set me free. And none of your philosophizing and rationalizing will prove me wrong. ❞}

_{♟ —       ❝Proving you wrong is the last of my priorities.❞ Sneak a glance, hold it still, ❝… the metaphor of a cage – is fairly common in literature. For example, Joseph Conrad wrote I would have given anything for the power to soothe her frail soul…❞ Falter your stare, ❝…tormenting itself in its invincible ignorance like a small bird beating about the cruel wires of a cage... not that you’re a bird, or in any way frail, but the metaphor stands to say —-❞}