Ruby

[Ruby @Rubynola82]

I do not tweet about you.

Unless you think
I tweet about you.

Then, obviously,
I tweet about you.

[Ruby @Rubynola82]

Want everything.
If you break
break going out not in.

How you live your life
I don't care

but I'll sell my arms for you,
hold your secrets for ever.

-Michael Ondaatje

[Ruby @Rubynola82]

I swear
I only want to hear about you,
to know what you've been doing.

It's a hundred years since we've met-
it may be another hundred before we meet again.

-Edith Wharton,
“The Age of Innocence”

[Ruby @Rubynola82]

What am I thinking about?

That’s what

[Ruby @Rubynola82]

There are kisses
that produce ravings
of burning, mad,
loving passion,

You know them well,
they're my kisses.
invented by me,
for your mouth.

-Gabriela Mistral
“Besos”

-Vintage candid snapshots 💕

[Ruby @Rubynola82]

Ada Limón
“Instructions On Not Giving Up”

[Ruby @Rubynola82]

Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time.

Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom

-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#birthdaywishes

[Ruby @Rubynola82]

It was all a matter of missed connections,
bad timing,
blundering in the dark.

We were always in the right place at the wrong time,
the wrong place at the right time,

always just missing each other,

always just a few inches from figuring the whole thing out.

-Paul Auster

[Ruby @Rubynola82]

am i “k” in your book?

-Michael Ondaatje,
“The English Patient”

[Ruby @Rubynola82]

If you see me
in any of your thoughts,
hug me,

I miss you.

-Julio Cortazar

Photography: Yulia Kazban
#missingyou

[Ruby @Rubynola82]

He willed
his soul
into mine

[Ruby @Rubynola82]

She began her day,
as she often did,
mourning
might-be-lovers
and far-away-friends.

She mourned
the possibilities
more than
the people.

Maybe that was
her problem.

[Ruby @Rubynola82]

Let me be your green light-

“You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock.”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald
“The Great Gatsby”

[Ruby @Rubynola82]

it is a serious thing

just to be alive

on this fresh morning

in the broken world

-Mary Oliver
“Invitation”

[Ruby @Rubynola82]

Frida Kahlo

[Ruby @Rubynola82]

Why am I not there?

You will ask,
why have I not taken that bus that will take me to you?

Because the world that I have here will not allow me to be there.

Because I torture myself every night thinking of you.

Why do I not simply forget about you?

-Mario Benedetti
💕💕💕

[Ruby @Rubynola82]

Love has the faculty
of making two lovers
seem naked,

not in each other's sight,

but in their own.

-Cesare Pavese

[Ruby @Rubynola82]

Secrets save me
from dissolving.

-Anne Carson,
Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

Photography,
Miroslav Tichy

[Ruby @Rubynola82]

Fear has always
guided me toward
what I desire.

And because I desire,
I fear.

Often it was fear
that took me
by the hand and led me.

Fear leads me to danger.

And everything I love is risky.

-Clarice Lispector

[Ruby @Rubynola82]

Remembering
when I used to try to be smart,
sexy
and cute
on here.

Not sure I ever achieved it.

Feeling like it might be worth another attempt.

[Ruby @Rubynola82]

If you see me
in any of your thoughts,
hug me,

I miss you.

-Julio Cortazar

Photography: Yulia Kazban