How Happy is the Blameless Vestal's Lot: Quotes

Time heals. It’s slow and it’s painful but it works. Talking helps, going out with other people, seeing friends. She’ll be like a book you read long ago. If you trust that if it’s meant to be then it’ll be again, and if it’s not you will wake up one day and realize that you hadn’t even thought of her once. And then you’ll be free.”
“People don’t always need advice. Sometimes all they need is a hand to hold, an ear to listen & a heart to understand.”
Love is finding her.
And not the her that makes your heart beat a little faster, her that makes you feel like you have a theme park inside your chest.
Not her that texts you 24/7, her that when she does finally text you, your entire body lights up and you catch your breathe.
Not her that you cuddle with all night and wake up to, her that you stay up as long as you can and don’t even remember falling asleep but waking up to her sleeping still and sneaking a forehead kiss in.
Not her that will take the safe route for everything, but the her that makes you want to do crazy things.
Not her that you could leave easily and be over in a couple months, but her that leaves you sick to your stomach when you eat and crying when you go to sleep because it’s your pillow next to you instead of her quiet breathing. Her that you feel like you would be nothing if she disappeared from your life.
That’s love.
Love is when your arm is asleep and your back is hurting from how they’re laying on you, but you lay there rubbing her arm or playing with her hair and kissing her forehead. Love is a hellish fight at 2 am and you almost leave but you realize that the only way to make everything better is listening to each other, compromising with each other, and accepting each other. Love is giving her the confidence and power to love herself without belittling yourself. Love is the color red, the color of her lips and cheeks that you long to kiss after a hard day at work. Love is letting her wear your favorite hoodie that your dad gave you. Love is laying on her bed and the sunshine is coming through the window on the her bare skin that has scars and stretch marks and you kiss them reassuring her that they are beautiful, because they are. Love is walking through autumn leaves for the second year in a row. Love is feeling the warmth of her neck on your nose when you nuzzle into her during a snow storm. Love is burning cookies on Valentine’s Day but you eat them anyways. Love is telling people how lucky you are to love her, to know her, to kiss her, for her to love you, to have each other. Love is a first real date after a year of dating because you were too busy falling in love to care about dinner. She is love.
“It’s not your job to fix me. It’s your job to hold my hand, while I fix myself
“I like my hair messy. My love wild. And my sex aggressive. But I’m still a sensitive woman, just with passion.”
You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge.

Apologize for mistakes. Apologize for unintentionally hurting someone — profusely. But don’t apologize for being who you are.
I think too much. I think ahead. I think behind. I think sideways. I think it all. If it exists, I’ve fucking thought of it.”
I am overflowing with words I do not have.”
“A healthy relationship is one where two independent people just make a deal that they will help make the other person the best version of themselves.”
“when you undress her, do so slowly. top to bottom. tuck her hair that usually perfectly frames her face behind her ears because that night there is no need for her to hide, while telling her how much you want her. do not wait till she is unclothed to call her beautiful, tell her as you move your hands to her waist as if sculpting the very definition of perfection. never break eye contact as you use one hand to trace the terrains of her collar bones. Kiss her lightly on the edges of her face, avoid her waiting lips, don’t forget to kiss behind the ears. use your nimble fingers to unbutton her blouse and run your tongue hesitantly down the curvature of her breasts. do not utter another word besides to breathe her name as you work your way down to her jeans. be gentle as you undo her pants, for bruises bloom on her hip bones from wearing her belt too tightly in hopes of making her waist appear slimmer. suck on them as if you could swallow the self hatred away. Tug her pants off with even pace. softly place your hand between the inside of her thighs and let it rest there as you finally meet her parted lips with your own. let your tongue be the messenger of your soul. she will understand its language and your profession of love. remove her intimates with quick fingers as she begins to undress you. and as you break apart to gasp for air, promise her broken soul your own, before closing the deal by making love.”
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Tell her, I’m sorry you had to kill us this way.

Tell her, these are not apology letters, but eulogies. Eulogies for roadkill and dead trees and all the beautiful things we could have become before we let the decay catch up to us.

Tell her, I’m crossing tightropes of words strung out of lovers who meant way more than they should have, and you meant way more than you should have. Tell her it is something you are not sorry about, tell her it taught you to walk one foot first instead of jumping right in.

Tell her, I’m sorry you had to kill us this way, because there are certain graves that are too hard to dig through and my hands are not willing to bleed for you.
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“Sometimes we just have to cut off the dead branches in our life. Sometimes that’s the only way we can keep the tree alive. It’s hard and it hurts, but it’s what’s best.”
You must learn her.

You must know the reason why she is silent. You must trace her weakest spots. You must write to her. You must remind her that you are there. You must know how long it takes for her to give up. You must be there to hold her when she is about to.

You must love her because many have tried and failed. And she wants to know that she is worthy to be loved, that she is worthy to be kept.

And, this is how you keep her.
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You do not get to choose
when to have me; you
cannot turn me off like too
loud music. Please don’t
teach me that I’m the kind
of person you need a break
from. Love me all the time
or not at all because I’m too
fragile to be left on pause.”
“If you had your hands around my neck, I’d use my last breath to tell you that I love you.”
I loved you before I ever touched you.”
“If you want to change you must shake your foundations. Demolish the concrete that has cemented your beliefs that you’re not enough. You cannot live in a house built on ground determined to erode away its very existence
“I want to be with you,
it is as simple,
and as complicated as that.”
Make the first move, tell people how you feel, stop being so scared of rejection, stop feeling so engulfed with thoughts that aren’t even yours, and stop wasting your fucking time.”
fuck small talk, tell me about your childhood, your future. & sex & drugs or sunsets. I don’t know how to talk about school or the weather”
It never stops hurting, does it?"

"What?"

"Giving someone the best of you and watching them choose someone else."
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If you don’t get excited when you’re about to kiss someone then you probably shouldn’t be kissing them. Kissing them should get you riled up inside and shout not be mediocre. Your stomach may turn, a jolt of electricity may go up your spine and just maybe your heart skips a beat. When you kiss someone it should not be like a burning candle, it should be like fireworks are going off.”
There was actually nothing beautiful or poetic about it.
You shattered my fucking heart.”
“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.”
Our bodies could be skin on skin and I’d still pull you closer.”
You
are the only
person you
need to be
good enough
for.”
I am afraid of getting older. I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day—spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free… I want, I want to think, to be omniscient.”
This is what I know. Don’t settle for 40, 50, or even 80 percent. A relationship-it shouldn’t be too small or too tight or even a little scratchy. It shouldn’t take up space in your closet out of guilty conscience or convenience or a moment of desire. Do you hear me? It should be perfect for you. It should be lasting. Wait. wait for 100 percent.”
I know I’ve made a lot of stupid mistakes, but the worst was thinking the person who hurt me the most, wouldn’t hurt me again
You brave, brave thing.
One day, you’re going to
stop leaving the door open
for people who only know how
to keep leaving.
stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive
Sleep with me. I couldn’t care less if we were wearing five layers of clothes, or nothing at all. You belong in my bed. You deserve to feel the comfort of what I call ‘paradise’.
Sleep with me. Let me help you recreate the warmth that left your fingertips years ago. I want to hear you breathe easily, as the sound drowns out every single worry on my weary mind.
Sleep with me. I don’t mean to create such a sense urgency, but you deserve to feel safe, and I’ll do everything in my power to make that happen.”
Don’t make the mistake of thinking you can control who you fall in love with.”
If we’re dating, you can have your freedom… You’re not my prisoner. Just stay loyal and be honest. That’s all I ask.”
“There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people
Don’t let people treat you like a cigarette, they only use you when they’re bored and step on you when they’re done. Be like drugs, let them die for you.”
“I want to come home to you and taste the waiting on your lips. I want the roses in my hand to fall on the floor because of the impact of your embrace. I want my nails etched into the trench of your back as you bury your head into my collarbone, while your lips unintentionally press against my neck. I want to feel the beating of your heart as it brings me to my knees. I want to taste the desire seeping through your skin and hear the distress exhaled of your lungs. I want your sigh of relief and I want you endlessly.
I want every inch of you as you’ve already taken me.”
don’t tell me you know me because i am an ocean and you have only seen the horizon
I wish you were beside me because all I want is to cuddle up and fall asleep while listening to the rain and your heartbeat.”
it's crazy what I would’ve done for you. You could’ve been on fire and I still would’ve let you kiss me and melt my lips.
If I were to die tomorrow, I’d realize that I did not die happy and that scares me
You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.”
As long as you’re happy, do not worry about me.”
How amazing it is to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go on in your head.”
How beautiful is it that someone could make your heart beat so fast when you don’t want it to beat at all.”
“I crave so much more than just a physical connection. I crave words and depth. I crave who you are and where you came from, your desires and fears. I yearn to know every inch of you beyond the surface.”
Never take a chance with a tattoo artist whose arms are bare. Never put your money on a fighter without any scars. But most importantly, never trust someone who only knows how to tell you they love you with their lips.”
you and i share the same sky. thats how i sleep at night
If you wake up at 3 am literally starving for this girl’s lips, you’re literally in fucking love with her”
Cuddling is so perfect when you think about it because you get really close to someone you love and its like saying “Hey human, there’s a lot of humans in the world but you’re my human and I love you.”
telling someone why you love them is like explaining what water tastes like
I don’t want to be a sweetheart. I want to be the fucking love of your life.
“If you don’t like where you are, move on. You are not a tree.”
I want to text you. Just to remind you that I’m still here. But then I remember that you know I’m here. You just don’t care.”
I just wanna go on more adventures. Be around good energy. Connect with people. Learn new things. Grow
Anxious people can have a hard time staying motivated, period, because their intense focus on their worries distracts them from their goals”
“Fuck, I want to have her in ways no one else has ever had her or ever will have her.”
Spend your time on those who love you unconditionally. Don’t waste it on those who only love you when the conditions are right for them.”
I tried everything. I smoked, drank, drove 100 on the freeway. Anything to make my heart feel the way it did when it beat next to yours
If you can just stop loving her then you never really loved her at all. Love doesn’t work that way. If you ever truly love someone, then it never goes away. It can become something else. There are all different sorts of love. It can even become hate—a thin line and all that—and, really, hate is just another kind of caring.”
“I want us to make each other better.”
You know you’re fucked when you start making exceptions that go against your rules because you want her that badly
“When you meet someone who tries their hardest to stick by you regardless of how difficult you are, keep them. Keep them at all costs because finding someone who cares enough to look past your flaws isn’t something that happens every day.”
have you ever just looked at someone and thought, my fucking god i adore you. i adore every goddamn ounce. i adore your bones and your soul. but I’m a loser, who just doesn’t wanna lose you. i can lose fucking everything, but not you. oh god. not you.
“I could write a fucking novel about the ache of missing you.”
I watched a girl in a sundress kiss another girl on a park bench, and just as the sunlight spilled perfectly onto both of their hair, I thought to myself: “How bravely beautiful it is, that sometimes, the sea wants the city, even when it has been told its entire life it was meant for the shore.”
“Don’t kiss me if you’re afraid of thunder. My life is a storm.
It’s 3.47am and I miss you just like I did last week at 2.15 in the afternoon when I remembered the last time you told me you wanted me and you meant it. It’s 3.47am and I should be sleeping but all I can think about is how you used to smile when I told you you were beautiful and the way you held me tight and said you would never let me go but I guess things change and people move on and now you’re sleeping and I’m lying awake thinking about you.”
I still remember the way my stomach flipped when I first saw her. I tried so hard to keep it cool, but goddamnit she was beautiful
She said, ‘I’m so afraid.’ And I said, ‘why?,’ and she said, ‘Because I’m so profoundly happy. Happiness like this is frightening.’ I asked her why and she said, ‘They only let you be this happy if they’re preparing to take something from you.”
I’m thinking about the first time I ever fell in love and now there are knots in my stomach, a noose around my heart, and you on my mind.”
We broke our bones, trying to fit into eachothers arms
“Come lay with me. I wanna talk about nothing with someone that means something.”
“I am figuring out which parts of my personality are mine  and which ones I created to please you.”
“I want to make you feel so fucking happy that you forget every bit of sad in you
i think freckles, stretch marks, tattoos, bruises, birthmarks and scars are probably the coolest thing, you started with almost a blank canvas and look at u now, all this evidence that you’ve lived and the sun has shone on you and you’ve grown and maybe tripped up a few times and liked an image so much u made it a permanent part of u, beautiful.
“If you don’t get excited when you’re about to kiss someone then you probably shouldn’t be kissing them. It should get you riled up inside and should not be mediocre.”
the thought of someone else touching you makes me sick to my stomach”
“It’s so beautiful to kiss someone who actually means a lot to you.”
“I’d cut my soul into a million different pieces just to form a constellation to light your way home. I’d write love poems to the parts of yourself you can’t stand. I’d stand in the shadows of your heart and tell you I’m not afraid of your dark.”
“If two points are destined to touch, the universe will always find a way to make the connection - even when all hope seems to be lost. Certain ties cannot be broken. They define who we are - and who we can become. Across space, across time, among paths we cannot predict - nature always finds a way.”
“It all comes down to the last person you think of at night. That’s where your heart is.”
“Loyalty isn’t grey. It’s black and white. You’re either loyal completely, or not loyal at all. And people have to understand this. You can’t be loyal only when it serves you.”
At least I see the same sky as you.”
I have sea foam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.”
“Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red.”
“I remember crying over you and I don’t mean a couple of tears and I’m blue. I’m talking about collapsing and screaming at the moon
I have a very big crush on u but sadly I am only a little bug and u are a garden
“The only thing that will grow is the thing we give energy to.”
“When you fall in love, you don’t just fall in love with their good qualities and extraordinary features, you also fall in love with their flaws, such as the way they bite their nails, snort when they laugh or even when they get mad or jealous at the little things. You fall in love with the way they roll their eyes when you do something that bothers them. You fall in love with the sleepless nights and the bad fights. When you fall in love, you fall in love with the way their face lights up when you say the right thing. You fall in love with the way they position their body as they sleep and the way they exhale as they change that position. When you fall in love, you fall in love with the scent they leave on your clothing and how it lingers through your room when they’re not around. You fall in love with the way they hold your hand and how softly they caress you. Now falling in love is something you can’t take for granted, it takes hard work and I believe when you truly find that one special person, you will do anything and get through anything just to be with that person. Even if it means going through hell and back. But finding that right person can happen at any time, you can be 14 years old or 83, but love takes time and there’s no need to rush it.”
If she only wants you, don’t worry about who wants her
I’ve been told that alcohol is bad for me.
I’ve also been told that loving you is bad for me.

I’m still drinking
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I’m homesick for arms that don’t want to hold me.
You’re not a bad person for the ways you tried to kill your sadness.”
I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.”
“'If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they’re yours; if they don’t they never were.' - Richard Bach. Yeah?… well fuck that shit and fuck Richard Bach. Do you honestly think, I have the time to meet someone, click, grow an attachment, fall in love, deeply in love, I’m not talking your average crush, I’m talking, going back to the days where we used to write love letters from long distances type of love, the 'making a cup of tea and blowing it until its warm enough for them to drink' type of love…to have a soul connection, miss them, crave them, submit to them, etc. just to let them go in the future. Wdf. Listen, if it’s gotton deep enough for me to fall into that type of love, I’m not letting you go. Fuck, I hate this generation of replacers. If something goes wrong, instead of fixing it, we replace, or let it go or some other dumb shit. No. Richard Bach, who is divorced, I will not take advice from you. As long as it isn’t toxic and unhealthy, I am not letting go.”
“Your voice could calm the oceans.”
“There is something in me, I can’t define but it hurts all the time.”
“I cant wait until I can roll over at 2 a.m. to find your lips instead of a text”
“The less you respond to negative people, the more peaceful your life will become.”
The thought of someone else kissing you makes me sick.”
“Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say.”
“You’re not aloud to blame me for the ways you ruined me.”
“Wait for someone who tells strangers about you.”
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
I don’t want to be
the other half of your soul.
I want to be the one
who reminds you
that you’re already whole.
“Thomas Edison’s last words were ‘It’s very beautiful over there’. I don’t know where there is, but I believe it’s somewhere, and I hope it’s beautiful.”
Why do you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?”
“It’s you. It’s been you since the moment I met you. It’s you at 2 in the morning or 4 in the afternoon. It’s you when I’m sleeping and studying and eating and laughing. You are everywhere and you are everything.”
“I wondered if a memory is something you have or something you’ve lost.”
“All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water. And that’s the tragedy of living.”
If you gotta force it, just leave it alone. Relationships, friendships, ponytails.. Just leave it.”
“I love the rain. I love how it softens the outlines of things. The world becomes softly blurred, and I feel like I melt right into it.”
I’m not sure why people dislike receiving drunk texts. you’re the only person they’re thinking of when their brain can’t function properly”
“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over again.”
“Inclusivity is empowerment. To disassociate myself from something I am so proud to be doesn’t make much sense to me. That being said, being a woman has its own plethora of challenges. Societal pressure and gender inequality being the tip of an enormous iceberg. I also recognize the ambiguity and mutating nature of the challenges we face. In riposte, I challenge you to be a catalyst for change. I challenge you to develop a new mantra. Repeat after me, I am special. I am important. I am worthy. I am most girls.”
“I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”
“But fucking hell I never thought it would hurt this much.”
“I’m not angry at you, but I’m mad at myself for expecting something better from people. I hate leaving myself so vulnerable.”
“When people hear the word “beautiful”, they expect something to be pretty. And for me that’s not always necessarily the case, you know.”
“I know you’re not here, I can see it in your eyes when we talk. Where ever you are, come back soon.”
“Picture yourself when you were five. In fact, dig out a photo of little you at that time and tape it to your mirror. How would you treat her, love her, feed her? How would you nurture her if you were the mother of little you? I bet you would protect her fiercely while giving her space to spread her itty-bitty wings. She’d get naps, healthy food, imagination time, and adventures into the wild. If playground bullies hurt her feelings, you’d hug her tears away and give her perspective. When tantrums or meltdowns turned her into a poltergeist, you’d demand a loving time-out in the naughty chair. From this day forward I want you to extend that same compassion to your adult self.”
When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.”
Good books help you understand, and they help you to feel understood.”
Sometimes recovery is waking up early to write in coffee shops and practicing yoga and eating lots of fruit and chocolate and sometimes it’s staying in bed all day and hiding from the world until you can stop crying. All of this is okay. What’s important is that you take care of yourself no matter what kind of day you’re having.
I’ll be ok. I just need time to be sad
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
“I am jealous of everybody who is with you when I’m not with you.”
Try not to feel jealous about things, or people or places. It’s toxic. Just keep living. You will find your happiness.”
“I want to live so densely, lush and slow in the next few years, that a year becomes ten years, and my past becomes only a page in the book of my life.”
I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.”
I am figuring out which parts of my personality are mine  and which ones I created to please you.”
“If you want to learn what someone fears losing, watch what they photograph.”
“When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them
“My life is a struggle between my need for acceptance, my fear of rejection, and a desire to not care at all.”
You can’t keep kissing strangers and pretend that it’s her.”
Your mother did not raise you with a wolf in your chest so you could howl over losing a man.”
There are a few things in life so beautiful they hurt: swimming in the ocean while it rains, reading alone in empty libraries, the sea of stars that appear when you’re miles away from the neon lights of the city, bars after 2am, walking in the wilderness, all the phases of the moon, the things we do not know about the universe, and you.”
“Forget stardust—you are iron. Your blood is nothing but ferrous liquid. When you bleed, you reek of rust. It is iron that fills your heart and sits in your veins. And what is iron, really, unless it’s forged? You are iron. And you are strong.”
when an artist wants to show you their art,
or a writer wants you to read what they’ve written,
It’s quite often an expression of trust.
Because a poem or a story or a painting are often things that come from the heart,
little pieces of the artists themselves,
and if they’re willing to share it with you,
you should appreciate it”
I am constantly torn between wanting to improve myself and wanting to destroy myself.”
Most times, it’s just a lot easier not to let the world know what’s wrong.”
Being happy is a very personal thing—and it really has nothing to do with anyone else .
“Oh, well, you know, people with scars are still beautiful. That’s not a very nice thing to say.”
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“What if you don’t complete the person that completes you?”
I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort—and disappointment and perseverance.”
“Do not try to be pretty. You weren’t meant to be pretty; you were meant to burn down the earth and graffiti the sky. Don’t let anyone ever simplify you to just “pretty.””
give yourself over to the wolf. let it eat the parts of you that are sick, that are damaged beyond salvage. let the wolf in and let it clean house, and let it leave again. the wolf knows which parts must be swallowed. you do not need what it takes, and where it bites you the wounds will heal. let the wolf in and let it eat you, and let it leave again.
Be with someone who talks about you like you put stars in the sky.”
It’s crazy how addicting the sound of a single person can be. Their voice, their laugh, how they pronounce their words. Just those simple pleasures can easily lighten your day
“i learned that people can easily forget that others are human.”
It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But it’s that cold absence of feeling— that really hollowed-out feeling
Nothing lasts,” she says, and there’s a little crack in her voice. “You think it’s going to. You think, ‘Here’s something I can hold on to,’ but it always slips away
“My mother doesn’t like tattoos. She says art belongs on a wall. Well I say no one, not even my mother gets to tell me that I can’t be a masterpiece.”
You wrecked me and
I apologized.”
Other people are not medicine
I remember that it hurt. Looking at her hurt
Draw a monster. Why is it a monster?”
“Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery.”
“I want the happiness that money can’t buy. The happiness that comes from watching the sunset as the ocean kisses your toes or gazing up at the stars at 2am on your balcony with nothing but a blanket and your thoughts. The happiness that comes from driving down the highway with the windows all the way down or dancing around your room to your favorite song. The happiness from tea and a good book on a Monday morning or from watching the flames of a summer bonfire surrounded by the laughs of your almost drunk friends. The happiness that you feel but can’t touch, that’s the happiness I want.”
I want you to kiss me. like I’ve never been kissed before. slam me against the wall. get your hands tangled in my hair. grab my hips and pull me closer. scratch up and down my back. grab the back of my neck. kiss me. tangle our tongues. bite me. bite my lips. my neck. my chest. kiss me and never stop. please?
“But jesus fuck I’d swallow poison if it tasted like you
“I wait and ache.”
Kiss me like my lips are air and you can’t breathe
“The greatest gift you can give someone is the space to be his or herself, without the threat of you leaving.”
Sleep is good, and books are better.”
“I could never cheat on anyone. It’s the type of mistake and wrong doing I couldn’t live with. Knowing that you destroyed someone’s trust is bad, but destroying someone’s perspective on love is far too worse.”
“I want to be wrapped in your arms, but instead you’re wrapped in my thoughts.”
“I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life. I’ve learned that making a “living” is not the same thing as making a “life.” I’ve learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance. I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one. I’ve learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
Stage One: You only trust others in the way small animals trust humans: you take flight as often as you can and leave them with the taste of feathers in their mouths. You do not bring people to where the nest of your heart is, others do not get access to where the broken eggshells of your soul lay scattered around. Instead you are bright white smiles and laughter and a wit so sharp a lover could cut themselves on it. This is a mask so well-fit that recently one of your friends said, “You’re like the happiest person I know,” and you didn’t even flinch.

Stage Two: They somehow stay around long enough that they notice your wings are clipped and you limp when you walk. They ask and you give answers that sashay away: “It was a long time ago,” “Don’t worry about it,” “You should see the other guy.” They can smell the blood but they don’t know where it’s leaking from. You are learning to let them in but goddamn it’s dark in here and you know better than to turn on the lights so they stand on your front porch and knock at your door and you pretend you’re not home. You say to yourself “they just think I’m broken and they’re looking for someone to fix they have no idea how bad it is.”

Stage Three: in the back of class or before a movie or in the middle of the woods, you slip up and they see it. it’s always something different. sometimes they catch the way your eyes turn dead when you think nobody is looking, sometimes it’s your sleeves riding up, sometimes it’s the untouched lunch. they bring it up or maybe they don’t but it kills you that they know. a lot of them ask if you’re okay and you say “yeah, of course” and then that’s the last you talk of it.

Stage Four: for some reason, they stick around even though your presence is poison and slowly staining them. they become your lighthouse, your breadcrumbs, your way home. you think maybe it’s time to open up but when you do, invariably you’re drunk or high or dead tired because even though you love them you would never be in your right mind to admit to the demons. you spill out of your outline, just a little at a time. they learn you, they watch you, they keep you sane, and then in the late night, you finally make that mistake and fill their ears with your story from start to finish and have to deal with the look that crosses their faces.

Stage Five: I actually don’t know what it’s like to be with someone who knows all of you and yet doesn’t leave. If you find out, please get back to me.
”
“I’m so fucking sick of saying I’m sorry when I’m the one collapsed on the ground
You end up real disappointed when you go through life thinking people have the same heart as you.
today was my last day in my creative writing class and my teacher gave everybody a piece of paper to write down a contract and to put it in our wallets. she said she did the same thing when she was younger and every now and then she’d brush by it and remember that she wanted to write. everybody took time to write out what they wanted and I just sat at the back of the class, sitting on the windowsill and I knew there was only one thing to write but I couldn’t bring myself to do it. at the end of the class after everybody left, I went to thank her for the year, and she told me that people should be reading my words for a long time, but they won’t be able to do that if I’m not around to write them. I showed her the blank piece of paper, and she said it was okay not to write anything, and then I wrote this. I learned the power of words in that class, I learned it was okay to vomit up half a dozen notebooks stained with blood and exploded pens because it means you have something to say.
I don’t like admitting to being better; I don’t want to become soft. I want to fight battles with bloody knuckles and lost teeth.
“Date someone who gives you the same feeling of when you see your food coming at a restaurant.”
“Hell is when the people you love the most reach right into your soul and rip it out of you. And they do it because they can
I didn’t say “I love you” to hear it back. I said it to make sure you knew
The first sentence of the truth is always the hardest. Each of us had a first sentence, and most of us found the strength to say it out loud to someone who deserved to hear it. What we hoped, and what we found, was that the second sentence of the truth is always easier than the first, and the third sentence is even easier than that. Suddenly you are speaking the truth in paragraphs, in pages. The fear, the nervousness, is still there, but it is joined by a new confidence. All along, you’ve used the first sentence as a lock. But now you find that it’s the key.”
The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours. It is an amazing journey, and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.”
“I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result.”
“I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else
“I didn’t like my name until you said it.”
Do not give yourself away. Never give yourself away. Observe the bloodshed but preserve your warmth. I want you to occasionally let go; but never surrender
“Cause you never think that the last time is the last time. You think there will be more. You think you have forever, but you don’t
If you are lucky enough to find a weirdo never let them go
“You’re my new favourite feeling.”
“It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me
If I punch myself and it hurts, am I too weak or too strong?
“Never beg someone to stay”
I love when you become so close with someone that you can see parts of each other in one another and you begin to say the same things and steal lines from one another and have a similar sense of humor and can exchange an inside joke with just a glance you don’t even have to talk because you have such a strong connection with them and you can sit in comfortable silence but also talk for hours it’s really hard to find that kind of compatibility
I think I might always be in some kind of love with you
i honestly just need someone to come into my life that really genuinely cares about me and wants to sit and have long conversations about things that actually matter and wants to go on adventures late at night and wants to be there for me at my lowest points and celebrate with me at my highest points and just be the rock that keeps me going when life gets rough
“You were unsure which pain is worse—the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.”
“Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them.”
Do not trust people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth. I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people
“I’ve been hurt so bad and I still love so hard. I admire my heart for that.”
“Being born a woman is an awful tragedy. Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, bar room regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording—all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yet, God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.”
I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance
“She calls my name as shelter, not realizing I am the storm.”
"i ripped these poems out as rough as you ripped me from your life, i fucking hate how you keep the stars glowing and the oxygen flowing, i did it without even flinching don’t you dare tell me you never felt anything, don’t you fucking dare, i loved you more than the sea loved the shore and you tore me away like a gorgeous fucking drought."
I really like you but you’re an ocean and I’m just a wave
“You are enough. You are so enough, it is unbelievable how enough you are.”
“Imagine your girlfriend taking photographs of you, not selfies, not “outfit of the day”, no Instagram bullshit. Actual photos. When you wake up, when you look at her, when you’re making love, when you’re cooking, when you’re taking a shower. Imagine if your girlfriend did that. This is a person who loves creating a visual documentation of the person she loves. You would cry at every picture she took because you know it’ll be purer than any other visual representation of yourself
“Beauty is not long hair, skinny legs, tanned skin or perfect teeth. Believe me. Beauty is the face of who cried and now smiles, beauty is the scar on your knee since you fell when you were a kid, beauty is the circles when love doesn’t let you sleep, beauty is the expression on the face when the alarm rings in the morning, it’s the melted makeup when you have a shower, it’s the laughter when you make a joke you’re the only one who can understand, beauty is meeting his gaze and stopping understanding, beauty is your gaze when you see him, it’s when you cry for all you paranoias, beauty is the lines marked by time. Beauty is what we feel in the inside which also shows outside us. Beauty is the marks the life leaves on us, all the kicks and the caresses the memories leave us. Beauty is letting yourself live.”
kissing is great

but wow when you get to kiss someone you have feelings for and you’ve wanted to kiss them for the longest time and you get to stroke their face and you’re so aware of their body and how nice their lips feel
“Wake up every morning and tell yourself that you’re a badass bitch from hell and that no one can fuck with you and then don’t let anybody fuck with you.”
“Imperfections are attractive when their owners are happy with them.”
I should have kissed you longer.

”
“I will always love the false image I had of you.”
“We look up at the same stars, and see such different things
No seventeen year old should want to get drunk just to become numb
“One day, she’s going to know. She’ll know your birthday, your middle name, where you were born, your star sign, and your parents names. She’ll know how old you were when you learnt to ride a bike, how your grandparents passed away, how many pets you had, and how much you hated going to school. She’ll know your eye colour, your scars, your freckles, your laugh lines and your birth marks. She’ll know your favourite book, movie, candy, food, pair of shoes, colour, and song. She’s going to know why you’re awake at 5am most nights, where you were when you realised you’d lost a good friend, why you picked up the razor and how you managed to put it down before things went too far. She’s going to know your phobias, your dreams, your fears, your wishes, and your worries. She’s going to know about your first heartbreak, your dream wedding, and your problems with your parents. She’ll know your strengths, weaknesses, laziness, energy, and your mixed emotions. She’s going to know about your love for mayonnaise, your dream of being famous when you were five, your need to quote any film you know all the way through, and your fear of growing older. She’ll know your bad habits, your mannerisms, your stroppy pout, your facial expressions, and your laugh like it’s her favourite song. The way you chew, drink, walk, sleep, fidget and kiss. She’s going to know that you’ve already picked out wedding flowers, baby names, tiles for the bathroom, bridesmaid dresses, and the colour of your bedroom walls. She’s going to know, get annoyed at and then accept that you leave clothes everywhere, take twenty minutes to order a Starbucks, have to organise your DVD’s alphabetically, and check your horoscope… just incase. She’ll know your McDonald’s order, how many sugars to put in your tea, how many scoops of ice cream you want, and that you need your sandwiches cut into triangles. She’s going to know how you feel without you telling her, that you need a wee from a look on your face, and that you’re crying without shedding tears. She’s going to know all of it. Everything. You, from top to bottom and inside out. From learning, from sharing, from listening, from watching. She’s going to know every single thing there is to know, and you know what else? She is still going to love you.”
Then suddenly you’re left all alone
with your body that can’t love you
and your will that can’t save you.”
“I hope you look for me in everyone else and panic when you realize that they’ll never be exactly the same.”
“They told me that to make her fall in love, I had to make her laugh. But everytime she laughs I’m the one who falls in love.”
“Somewhere along the way, I lost my passion, my excitement, for life. I wonder if this is what they meant by “growing up
"Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness
“

First kisses aren’t something I would ever recommend getting over with. Yeah they can be awkward, and sloppy, but no matter what the outcome, it’s still a connection with someone. Sometimes you’ll bump heads, or teeth, or bite them, or get your braces stuck together, but just embrace it. Because it’s not something you’re experiencing alone. It is that one, single act that can be the start of something amazing. Don’t throw that away in fear of messing up.

It’s that first time when you are close enough to a person to see every freckle on their face, the way their lips fall into yours, the way you pull away and the first thing you’re in contact with when your eyes focus is theirs, and that’s such an incredible thing. Savor it, savor who it’s with. It could mean everything to them without you even knowing it.

”
“But the weird thing about depression is that it tends to further isolate you from people, thereby making it ever-harder for anyone to bridge the gap and really hear you in the way you need to be heard. So it becomes progressively more difficult to feel that you aren’t alone with your pain, which can make the despair feel permanent and unsolvable.
This is the most insidious thing about depression, I think: It makes itself more powerful by dragging you away from the world outside of yourself.”
“When was the last time you were called beautiful and felt it?”
“Mental illness is like fighting a war where the enemy’s strategy is to convince you that the war isn’t actually happening
i think freckles, stretch marks, tattoos, bruises, birthmarks and scars are probably the coolest thing, you started with almost a blank canvas and look at u now, all this evidence that you’ve lived and the sun has shone on you and you’ve grown and maybe tripped up a few times and liked an image so much u made it a permanent part of u, beautiful
I need someone who will sit on a rooftop with me at 2 in the morning and will tell me their favorite songs and their family problems and how they think the earth was made
some days you do big things and conquer the universe and other days you’re really proud of yourself for making a spectacular grilled cheese and not killing yourself but either way it’s all good
I want to see the world. I want to really see it. Throw myself into it, and really feel it. I want to be at one with the world, but for that I need to travel. I want to hit at least one spot in every continent before branching out. I want to see the world. I want to see its riches. I want to see its poverty. I want to see the soils of war. I want to see the plains of peace. I want to really see the world, and everything in it.
shout out to girls with harsh voices and boys with fat thighs and to people who dont like a tv show but will still watch it with a good attitude if their friend wants to watch it and shout out to people who only rarely talk to their pets in baby voices and also to people who laugh at their own jokes and people who draw angry eyebrows on billboards i love you all
“His mind was a library and I wanted to read all the books
the world is incredible. there are girls in this world, and there are also dogs. you can put melted cheese on any type of potato. sometimes flowers grow even when nobody is there to water them. right now on this same planet where we live there are people who are in love with each other kissing each other on the nose. emotions and colours are both things that exist. everything is so great
It’s weird how in animals seeing ribs/collar&hip bones is considered sick or even abusive, but in people that’s considered beautiful
I wonder whose arms I would run and fall into, if I was drunk in a room with every person I have ever loved
it’s scary how many people think they want to die when really they want to start living
Does anyone else lie in bed at 2:30am filled with the crippling fear that they’re never going to accomplish anything in life and fail miserably or is that just me
“I need my small, meaningless lies. I need all my self-created semi-truths. It’s the only way for me to keep exclusive parts of myself to myself. Believe me, I do not even perceive them as lies. It’s something different that keeps happening inside my head. At the same time, I long to tell you the truth about me, always. I want to share with you each important or unimportant detail and feel and fully embrace the very act of sharing. But it occurs to me that it’s the hardests of tasks; I hate it. I hate unveiling bits and pieces of anything permanent or temporary that resides in me. I loathe it with my heart. You can find more honesty in the smallest of my gestures rather in my words; my words are too impatient, too loose, too doomed in some way.”
“Memory’s so treacherous. One moment you’re lost in a carnival of delights with poignant childhood aromas, the flashing neon on puberty, all that sentimental candyfloss … The next, it leads you somewhere you don’t want to go … Somewhere dark and cold, filled with the damp ambiguous shapes of things you’d hoped were forgotten.”
Sometimes suffering is just suffering. It doesn’t make you stronger. It doesn’t build character. It only hurts.”
“I’m not going to be the girl you marry, but I’ll be the girl you’ll be thinking of 20 years from now while you engage in polite sex with your boring wife who fakes her orgasm to make you feel better about your receding hairline
“Poetry doesn’t have to rhyme, it just has to touch someone where your hands couldn’t
“I love unmade beds. I love when people are drunk and crying and cannot be anything but honest in that moment. I love the look in people’s eyes when they realize they’re in love. I love the way people look when they first wake up and they’ve forgotten their surroundings. I love the gasp people take when their favorite character dies. I love when people close their eyes and drift to somewhere in the clouds. I fall in love with people and their honest moments all the time. I fall in love with their breakdowns and their smeared makeup and their daydreams. Honesty is just too beautiful to ever put into words
I have this weird theory that some people are drawn to each other because their atoms were near each other when the universe was created and over time the same atoms keep coming back together
i feel like van gogh would have been the kind of guy to put no tear shampoo in his eyes because he thought it would make the tears stop
We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented
Vincent Van Gogh used to eat yellow paint because he thought it would get the happiness inside him. Many people thought he was mad and stupid for doing so because the paint was toxic, never mind that it was obvious that eating paint couldn’t possible have any direct correlation to one’s happiness, but I never saw that. If you were so unhappy that even the maddest ideas could possible work, like painting the walls of your internal organs yellow, than you are going to do it. It’s really no different than falling in love or taking drugs. There is a greater risk of getting your heart broken or overdosing, but people still do it everyday because there was always that chance it could make things better. Everyone has their yellow paint.”
isn’t it weird to think that you might be drinking the water that someone drowned in and that you might be breathing in the same air that last left a dying person’s lungs and that gift you gave someone that was wrapped in recycled paper might have been someone’s suicide note and that the box jellyfish has 64 anuses

isn’t that weird to think about
“It’s funny how artistic we become when our hearts are broken.”
BE YOUR OWN ANCHOR.
if no one comes from the future to stop you from doing it then how bad of a decision can it really be
what if with our first clot of air when we are born we inhale a soul, and every time we breathe out, we squeeze a tiny part of our souls out. would our final breath actually be the very last soul fragment leaving our bodies?
“If tomorrow, women woke up and decided they really liked their bodies, just think how many industries would go out of business.”
“I either eat too much or starve myself. Sleep for 14 hours or have insomniac nights. Fall in love very hard or hate passionately. I don’t know what grey is. I never did.”
“The worst feeling ever is to be in so much pain and have nobody to even know how bad you are hurting.”
Seeing someone reading a book you love is seeing a book recommending a person.”
Rule # 12: Only three types of people tell the truth: kids, drunk people, and anyone who is pissed the fuck off.”
“Sometimes I have the strangest feeling about you. Especially when you are near me as you are now. It feels as though I had a string tied here under my left rib where my heart is, tightly knotted to you in a similar fashion. And when you go, I am afraid that this cord will be snapped, and I shall bleed inwardly.”
ughuhgufh you know that feeling where you want someone SO BAD like not even in a sexual way like you just want to touch their skin and hug them and feel their warmth and smell their scent and feel how soft their hair is and look into their eyes and hear their voice and soak in their presence like it’s physically impossible to have them by your side but you need it so bad like you just want them to be yours you want them physically there for you
Have you ever felt a potential love for someone?

Like, you don’t actually love them and you know you don’t, but you know you could. You realise that you could easily fall in love with them. It’s almost like the bud of a flower, ready to blossom but it’s just not quite there yet. And you like them a lot, you really do. You think about them often, but you don’t love them. You could, though. You know you could.
“Life is so ironic. It takes sadness to know happiness, noise to appreciate silence, and absence to value presence.”
I wish I could find somebody who is willing to sneak out with me in the middle of the night and drive to the middle of nowhere and just lay on the roof of the car and stare at the stars and just share with each other everything that we were too afraid to share with anyone else
Some people are so broken,
They get mad at you for being whole.”
“Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.”
This is the chemical formula for love:

C8H11NO2+C10H12N2O+C43H66N12O12S2
dopamine, seratonin, oxytocin.

It can be easily manufactured in a lab, but overdosing on any of them can cause schizophrenia, extreme paranoia, and insanity.

Let that sink in.
what really scares me is that i’m average i’m not really good at anything or really beautiful i’m going to live an average life with an average job an average income and die an average death with an average funeral and nobody is going to remember me

Van Gogh thought that too
i don’t just want a boyfriend/girlfriend i want someone who laughs into kisses and stays in bed an extra hour with me every morning and buys me chinese food when i’m on my period and cries in front of me and lets me cry in front of them and someone i can take quiet baths with or have shower fights with and someone i can just be completely me around and i dont care how corny it sounds i just wanna find a soul mate
It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head
“Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.”
having anxiety and depression is like being scared and tired at the same time. it’s the fear of failure but no urge to be productive, and it’s wanting friends while hating socializing. it’s like running a marathon with the willpower of a corpse because you want to get to the end but you also want to sleep and evaporate into the soil and become compost for snails and flowers because then at least you’re useful
The world didn’t get worse, homie, your eyes just got wider.”
“If the full moon loves you, why worry about the stars?”
I’m not the type of girl anybody wants to be with. My body takes up too much space and I laugh too loudly for too long and I shout when other people are quiet and I always wanted to be mysterious and beautiful and untouchable like other girls but if you ask I will give you everything and I fucking despise that.
do you guys realize we can change our lives any time we want like you can just go ahead and delete ur blog, stop eating meat, shave or head, start running, tell that person you hate why you hate them so much, confess your love to someone and kiss them unexpectedly like why don’t we do that
“There are two important events in your life: your birth and your death. One is already finished; for what is left, I expect to live mine to the fullest
“if you consider a woman
less pure after you’ve touched her
maybe you should take a look at your hands”
‘yeah but im not saying it because im drunk. im saying it as fact, it is 54 degrees outside, the ocean is salty, and i love you’
we think we’re made of numbers. percentages on tests, pounds on a scale, likes on a photo, price tags on clothes. but we’re not. we are made of love and happiness and they way we laugh. we’re made of good memories and late nights and past-curfews. we have more substance than numbers.
"and we didn’t talk after that" is probably the saddest thing to say
“It’s one thing to fall in love. It’s another to feel someone else falling in love with you.”
“Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.”
“Someday someone is going to look at you with a light in their eyes you’ve never seen, they’ll look at you like you’re everything they’ve been looking for their entire lives. Wait for it.”
Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night’s sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too.”
I love the person I’ve become, because I fought to become her.”
おっぱい (Oppai), a unique japanese word that describes the feeling of waiting for someone that you know that won’t come back
I think once you’ve thought about how a person sleeps, how they’d feel pressed up against your back, or your head on their chest, how compatible your bodies would be in the same space of a bed-
once you’ve thought about that, you’re fucked
we’ve all got that weird pretty big secret that we don’t really hide but like we don’t flaunt it like “My brother died of cancer” or “I’m gay” or “I tried to kill myself last year” or anything really and when you find out somebody’s big plot twist you know you’re in this friendship for the long run
one of the worst moments in life is probably when you’re in a room full of people and you look around and see them all talking and laughing and all of sudden you feel so sad and lonely that you can even feel a physical pain in your chest because you realize that they all belong to someone and they all have someone who belongs to them and you don’t, you’re just kind of there
Marry your best friend. I do not say that lightly. Really, truly find the strongest, happiest friendship in the person you fall in love with. Someone who speaks highly of you. Someone you can laugh with. The kind of laughs that make your belly ache, and your nose snort. The embarrassing, earnest, healing kind of laughs. Wit is important. Life is too short not to love someone who lets you be a fool with them. Make sure they are somebody who lets you cry, too. Despair will come. Find someone that you want to be there with you through those times. Most importantly, marry the one that makes passion, love, and madness combine and course through you. A love that will never dilute - even when the waters get deep, and dark.”
I’m someone who’s mostly dead inside but still has a little hope for something extraordinary, which, as I said, is the worst breed of human, because it means I know everything is bullshit, but that I secretly hope for the day when it might not be.”
“I stay up just late enough until I am just exhausted enough that I can fall into my bed and sink into immediate slumber. Because I can’t stand lying in a bed in a dark room alone with just my thoughts for so many hours and hours.”
What if clouds and lakes switched spots and every time you looked up you’d see waves being pulled by the moon and we’d wade through the clouds on a hot day. What if birds grew grass and the ground grew feathers. What if flowers were as tall as trees and trees as small as flowers.”
the actual, physical ache you feel in your chest and in your bones when you’re so sad is fucking awful.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
“The best part of a relationship is getting to call the person, or lay down next to them, and tell them all the crazy things that happened to you all day long. In the end that’s what it’s about. It’s not about sex, it’s not about the money they give you, it’s not about how good looking they are, it’s about them listening to you talk for hours and hours and hours, about stupid shit that doesn’t matter.”
i have no interest in small talk tell me about ur childhood and what ur parents are like and how many siblings u have and if u are afraid of death or if u believe in an afterlife and what ur favorite movie is and if u like romantic comedies or horror movies or action movies and what kind of music u like and why and tell me the bands or artists u loved in middle school but are too ashamed to admit to anyone else and
“When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you’ll never get back. Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time.”
Your body is made of the same elements that lionesses are built from. Three quarters of you is the same kind of water that beats rocks to rubble, wears stones away. Your DNA translates into the same twenty amino acids that wolf genes code for. When you look in the mirror and feel weak, remember, the air you breathe in fuels forest fires capable of destroying everything they touch. On the days you feel ugly, remember: diamonds are only carbon. You are so much more.
“I wish I stayed, I wish I did a lot of things……I wish I stayed”
Every year, unknowingly, we pass the anniversary of our future death.
A good relationship is when two people accept each other’s past, support each other’s present, and love each other enough to encourage each other’s future. So don’t rush love. Find a partner who encourages you to grow, who won’t cling to you, who will let you go out into the world, and trust that you will come back. This is what true love is all about.”
“I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulled the sand.”
There comes a time when you have to stop crossing oceans for people who wouldn’t even jump puddles for you.”
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
The best feeling in the world is knowing your presence and absence both mean something to someone.”
No, I’m not ok. But I haven’t been ok since I was 11, maybe 12. I am still here though.
I’m still breathing. For me, sometimes, that will have to be enough.”
“I love that moment. When you’re on a long car ride, or listening to music, or reading. And you completely zone out. You forget your troubles, and everyone around you. You’re focused on that one thing, and that one thing only. You’re content, and everything seems peaceful.”
You can tell a lot about a person’s character by what they laugh at.”
“I will love you as a thief loves a gallery and as a crow loves a murder, as a cloud loves bats and as a range loves braes. I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong.”
“Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings that puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.”
“I promise to plant kisses like seeds on your body, so in time you can grow to love yourself as I love you.
“She made her home in between the pages of books”
DO YOU EVER LOOK AT SOMEONE AND REALIZE THAT LITERALLY EVERYTHING ABOUT THEM IS PERFECT THEIR EYES ARE PERFECT THEIR NOSE IS PERFECT THEIR MOUTH IS PERFECT THEIR HAIR IS PERFECT THEIR BUTT IS PERFECT THEIR NECK IS PERFECT THEIR HANDS ARE PERFECT THEIR FEET ARE PERFECT CONGRATULATIONS ON EVERY FUCKING THING
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
“She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something
“What a loss to spend that much time with someone, only to find out that she’s a stranger.”
“Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.”
“There is an ancient peace you carry in your heart and have not lost.”
“I certainly have not the talent which some people possess of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.”
“Yearning for love made her feel like a cat that was always twining around ankles, meowing “pet me, pet me, look at me, love me.” Better to be the cat gazing coolly down from a high wall, it’s expression inscrutable. The cat that shunned petting, that needed no one. Why couldn’t she be that cat?”
“Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.”
You’re going to lose weight, and buy a closet full of new clothes, and whiten your teeth, and cut your hair, and move to a great apartment in a different city, and make new cooler friends. And you’re still going to be unhappy.”
When reading, we don’t fall in love with the characters’ appearance. We fall in love with their words, their thoughts, and their hearts. We fall in love with their souls.”
We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.”
You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That’s how I’ve done it. There’s no other way.”
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”
She had the kind of fingers you want to interlace with your own.”
Someone’s probably in love with you right now, even though you think you’re boring and stupid and smell bad most of the time, someone probably saw you last week and wiped their sweaty hands on the insides of their pockets and thought about your body under your clothing and about how you would look asleep in their bed
“I kissed her and saw that her eyes were shut. I kissed both her shut eyes. I thought she was probably a little crazy. It was all right if she was. I did not care what I was getting into.”
We gotta start teaching our daughters to be somebodies instead of somebody’s.”
“I love you, not just for now, but for always”
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
When you are attracted to people, it’s because of the details. Their kindness. Their eyes. The fact that they can get you to laugh when you need it the most.”
“We mistake sex for romance. Guys are taught that pushing a girl up against a wall is romance. Sex is easy; you can do it with anyone, yourself, with batteries. Romance is when someone you like walks into a room and they take your breath away. Romance is when two people are dancing and they fit together perfectly. Romance is when two people are walking next to each other and all of a sudden they find themselves holding hands, and they don’t know how that happened.”
I love kissing. I love the way they feel, I love the sighs and moans that follow. I love the small pauses and teases for more. I love the small taste of tongue that brush together occasionally. I love the wandering hands. I like biting. I like pulling. I like running my tongue lightly across their bottom lip. I like the little laughs when its almost too good and you can’t help yourself. Idk. Making out as a whole is just pretty great.
Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings that puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.”
“If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.”
first loves are so beautiful and pure. soft as silk, sweet as honey and foolishly giddy. you get so blinded by this awe-striking person that loves you dearly, that when it suddenly comes to an end, often times we’re left speechless, confused & of course broken hearted. My first love was my first boyfriend. I was 16, as was he. Even though it was a long distance, we were close as ever. On the phone all day or skyping till we fell asleep together only to wake up the next morning to each other via our screens. i was leaving for tokyo very soon, never to return, so it was bound to be heart break. he was my first everything. i still sleep with the stuffed animal he gave me. (which used to smell of his cologne) i never cried after we broke up. it hurt too much to even cry. what hurt even more was that he deleted/blocked me on everything right after. i’ll never know if he was really over me or if that was his coping mechanism
Van Gogh is the finest painter of them all. Certainly the most popular great painter of all time. The most beloved. His command of color, the most magnificent. He transformed the pain of his tormented life into ecstatic beauty. Pain is easy to portray but to use your passion and pain to portray the ecstasy and joy and magnificence of our world. No one had ever done it before. Perhaps no one ever will again. To my mind, that strange wild man who roamed the fields of Provence, was not only the world’s greatest artist but also one of the greatest men who ever lived.
“I felt like crying but nothing came out. It was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can’t feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. But I think I have known it pretty often, too often.”
“It’s a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you’re hurt.”
“Are you scared? Or are you not ready? There is a difference.”
“You can tell how someone feels about you by the way they look at you.”
“I think about dying but I don’t want to die. Not even close. In fact my problem is the complete opposite. I want to live, I want to escape. I feel trapped and bored and claustrophobic. There’s so much to see and so much to do but I somehow still find myself doing nothing at all. I’m still here in this metaphorical bubble of existence and I can’t quite figure out what the hell I’m doing or how to get out of it.”
But I don’t want small talk. Text me, and without saying hello, tell me why you got so angry at your sister this morning. Tell me why you have a scar shaped like Europe on the left side of your neck. Send me paragraphs about the time you spent at your grandmother’s house that one summer. Call me when I’m half asleep and tell me why you believe in God. Tell me about the first time you saw your dad cry. Go on for hours about things that may not seem important because I promise that I’ll be hanging on to every word you say. Tell me everything. I don’t want someone who just talks about the weather."
“
I’m not sure what love is, but I think it’s hearing her say, “You’re an asshole,” while her smile betrays the words that just came out of her mouth. It’s getting a FaceTime call at eight in the morning so she can show you her outfit, because she thinks she looks really cute that day. I think love is blurting out exactly how you feel about her when she asks you why you’re looking at her “like that.” It’s unplanned and sloppy, the exact opposite of how you wanted it to happen; but the smile on her face tells you that it was perfect in its own way. Love is being afraid to let her know about certain parts of yourself, but telling her anyways. It’s making breakfast with her in the morning, dancing with her despite your two left feet, and passionately singing the wrong lyrics just to hear her laugh.

I’m not sure what love is, but it just might be magic.
”
You need to understand that I’ll never be the girl that begs you to stay. If you decide to walk out of my life, I might be sad for a little while but know that I’ll never chase you. I’ll just let you go.”
I'm scared as hell to want you. but here i am, wanting you anyway.
YOU THINK YOU'RE THE FIRST PERSON TO BELIEVE THEIR WAR WAS JUSTIFIED?
“The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.”
“I lost my innocence very young and it had nothing to do with sex.”
studying how people coexist with nature is part of environmental research. i was curious why people would kill themselves in such a beautiful forest. i still havent found the answer to that. i see some bouquets of flowers over there. there's also a box of chocolates. it must be from the deceased's family or friends. they must have brought the flowers. you think you die alone, but that's not true. nobody is alone in this world.
im so lucky to be alive at the same time as you
“If you are lucky enough to find a weirdo never let them go”
Gay Pride was not born of a need to celebrate being gay, but our right to exist without persecution. So instead of wondering why there isn’t a Straight Pride movement, be thankful you don’t need one.”
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something
Heaven's not a place that you go when you die
It's that moment in life when you actually feel alive
“I know I am not good enough for you but I will spend all my life proving that I am.”
“
"I don’t hate you," she promised. "I swear I don’t.

"It just hurts too much to be around you right now."
”
“You’re in a relationship to be happy, to smile, to laugh, to make memories, to enjoy one another - and not to be constantly hurt and upset.”
“There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.”
“A tragedy, when a mature mind and a romantic heart are in the same body.”
“When you said your last goodbye, I died a little bit inside.”
“If I come off as heartless or an asshole, it’s only because being soft and too nice never got me anywhere. I used to give my heart and love freely and to anyone even if they didn’t deserve it but after you get hurt time after time you learn that you can’t do that anymore. You learn that people need to work to be able to experience that side of you.”
“People ask me all the time why I’m so afraid of falling in love. I’m afraid because I don’t want to fall so insanely hard for a person only for them to leave me like I never meant a damn thing. I’m afraid that no matter how many sweet things I say or do, it just won’t be good enough. I’m afraid that after kissing me goodbye they are going to go off and kiss somebody else hello. I’m afraid of falling deeper in love with someone everyday while they are falling out of love everyday. I’m afraid of the pain that comes with heartbreak. I’m afraid to deal with the countless nights of crying and endless questions wondering where everything went wrong. I’m so terrified of the concept of love but no matter how great my fear is I always let myself fall, I fall every damn time.”
“I wanted to kill myself and you were yelling about dirty dishes”
“I want to inspire people. I want someone to look at me and say, ‘Because of you I didn’t give up.’”
“You are very lucky if you have someone to whom you can tell about your bad behaviours without them thinking that you are a bad person, but because they know that what is inside you is purer and more beautiful.”
“I’m a paradox. I want to be happy, but I think of things that make me sad. I’m lazy, yet I’m ambitious. I don’t like myself, but I also love who I am. I say I don’t care, but I really do. I crave attention, but reject it when it comes my way. I’m a conflicted contradiction. If I can’t figure myself out, there’s no way anyone else has.”
“I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.”
“Maybe it won’t work out. But maybe seeing if it does will be the best adventure ever.”
“If they don’t know you personally, don’t take it personal.”
“Call me at 4 am, and tell me it’s because you want to hear my voice.”
“If you could go anywhere in the world right now would it be to a “where” or to a “who”?”
“When someone makes you the happiest person and the saddest person at the same time, that’s when it’s real. That’s when it’s worth something.”
“I’ve been stuck on you for so long that I don’t even remember what it feels like to want anyone else.”
“Someday, someone is going to look at you with a light in their eyes you’ve never seen, they’ll look at you like you’re everything they’ve been looking for their entire lives. Wait for it.”
“you chug a fifth of alcohol by yourself & everyone around you is too busy cheering to wonder how empty you had to be in order to do it”
"Learn your religion. Do not inherit it."
"If you can see a future without me and that doesn’t break your heart then we’re not doing what I thought we were doing here."
"When you meet the right person, you know it. You can’t stop thinking about them. They’re your best friend… and your soul mate. You can’t wait to spend the rest of your life with them. No one and nothing else can compare."
I love the rain. I love how it softens the outlines of things. The world becomes softly blurred, and I feel like I melt right into it."
"You can never explain how painful it is to say goodbye to someone you love."
"The more chances you give someone the less respect they’ll start to have for you. They’ll begin to ignore the standards that you’ve set because they’ll know another chance will always be given. They’re not afraid to lose you because they know no matter what you won’t walk away. They get comfortable with depending on your forgiveness."
"I’m trying to burn the past but i just keep choking on the ashes and I really wish our memories would go up in flames like your love for me did."
"The worst distance between two people is misunderstanding."
"Never miss an opportunity to tell someone how much they mean to you."
"I just wanna go on more adventures. Be around good energy. Connect with people. Learn new things. Grow."
"All I need is some affection. Not even sexual. Just someone to run there fingers through my hair, across my arm or even just hold my hand and kiss my forehead."
"The person you’re meant to be with will never have to be chased, begged or given an ultimatum."
"I am too full of life
to be half loved."
"happiness is your ability to withstand sadness"
"it’s okay if the only thing you did today was breathe."
"I love that moment. When you’re on a long car ride, or listening to music, or reading. And you completely zone out. You forget your troubles, and everyone around you. You’re focused on that one thing, and that one thing only. You’re content, and everything seems peaceful."
"COMPLIMENTS THAT AREN’T ABOUT PHYSICAL APPEARANCE
1) You’re empowering.
2) I like your voice.
3) You’re strong.
4) I think your ideas/beliefs matter.
5) I’m so happy you exist.
6) More people should be listening to what you have to say.
7) You’re a very warm hearted person.
8) It’s nice seeing such kindness.
9) You’re very down to earth.
10) You have a beautiful soul.
11) You inspire me to become a better person.
12) Our conversations bring me a lot of joy.
13) It’s good to see someone care so much.
14) You’re so understanding.
15) You matter a lot to me.
16) You’re important even if you don’t think so.
17) You’re intelligent.
18) Your passion is contagious.
19) Your confidence is refreshing.
20) You restore my faith in humanity.
21) You’re great at being creative.
22) You’re so talented at ____.
23) I don’t get tired of you the way I get tired of other people.
24) You have great taste in ___.
25) I’m happy I stayed alive long enough to meet you.
26) I wish more people were like you.
27) You’re so good at loving people."
"Nice people don’t necessarily fall in love with nice people."
"The most difficult people to be loved, are the most in need of love."
"Let it go. Whatever it is that you should’ve let go long ago. Let it go. The freedom that comes next is something wild and true."
"I think I fall in love a little bit with anyone who shows me their soul. This world is so guarded and fearful. I appreciate rawness so much."
Find someone who understands your silence
"And when you love something, you don’t threaten it. You don’t punish it. You fight for it. You take care of it. You put it first."
"And darling I promise I meant it when I said I wanted you to be happy, I just didn’t want you to be happier then me. But I guess I’m just not that lucky."
If you find parts of yourself missing, do not search for them in somebody else.

I swear you will find them one day; and if not, you will discover pieces you have never seen before.

You are not a simple work of art.
You are the entire museum.
"Her eyes have their own vocabulary. What a beautiful language to learn."
I know there was something before you.

I just can’t remember what it was.
"Don’t set yourself on fire to keep others warm."
"Love doesn’t hurt, loving the wrong person does."
"I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in, and all your dreams. The way you drink your tea. How you decorate your home. Or party. Your grocery list. The food you make. How your writing looks. And the way you feel. Life is art."
Real love doesn’t meet you at your best.

It meets you in your mess.
"Psychology says, always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to help you grow"
"Like a shadow,
I am and I am not.
"But I must admit I miss you terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby."
She knows I’m crazy about her. All she has to do is blink and my heart starts pounding like a drum."
"Relationships last long not because they’re destined to last long. Relationships last long because two brave people made a choice—to keep it, fight for it, and to work for it. Meanwhile, other relationships fail not because they’re destined to fail. They fail because one of the two, or both, made the choice—to set each other free."
"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."
"She loved the ocean
because every time the waves
left the shore,
they always came back."
"I need someone who will sit on a rooftop with me at 2 in the morning and will tell me their favorite songs and their family problems and how they think the earth was made"
"I just, I can’t describe what I feel for you but it starts from the pit of my stomach and warms my chest until I can practically feel every nerve ending in my body and all I want is for you to touch my skin."
"Somedays being me is too much and somedays being me is not enough."
There are two types of waiting. There’s the waiting you do for something you know is coming, sooner or later—like waiting for the 6:28 train, or the school bus, or a party where a certain handsome boy might be. And then there’s the waiting for something you don’t know is coming. You don’t even know what it is exactly, but you’re hoping for it. You’re imagining it and living your life for it. That’s the kind of waiting that makes a fist in your heart."
"I love you like the woman I am now. Not the girl I was. I’m battered and bruised and I’m tougher, but I’m still here. I’m scared to death, but I’m more frightened of a life without you."
"How weird it is to think I used to not know of your existence. I somehow lived my life without ever knowing you were a person. Once we met though, god I haven’t been able to get you out of my head since. It’s hard to imagine I used to be able to live my life without you consuming my head with thoughts."
"Almost. It’s a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe."
"I don’t care how complicated this gets, I still want you
"Learn your religion. Do not inherit it."
"Because this is my life. And that’s the only explanation you will ever need."
Sometimes I find myself crying in my room, wishing to go home.

Then I realize, I am home. But I’m not happy here.

I’m so fucking homesick, but I’m homesick for a place that doesn’t even exist.
"Tell me every terrible thing you did, and let me love you anyway."
"I wish I was better with my words because you deserve someone who could tell you just how perfect you really are but I swear, the day I finally get to show you, you’ll understand just what I meant every time some mangled mess of nonsense came spewing out"
"Learn to say ‘no’ without explaining yourself."
-I’m not searching for my other half because I’m not a half.
"Sometimes not telling people anything is a good thing."
"I didn’t become heartless , I just became smarter. My happiness will not depend on someone else . Not anymore"
"Just when I think I’m okay. Just when I think I’m happy, something happens and my stomach drops. All of a sudden, it’s all falling apart."
"I fell in love with the way you touched me without using your hands."
"You will be shocked, kids, when you discover how easy it is in life to part ways with people forever.

That’s why, when you find someone you want to keep around, you do something about it."
"How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you’ll never meet them. All right, so we do the best we can. Granted. But we must still realize that love is just the result of a chance encounter."
"Pay close attention to the people who don’t clap when you win."
"The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet."
"Cause I’d rather fight with you than laugh with another"
"I do not desire mediocre love. I want to drown in someone."
"I want you. I want your sleepy confused look when you wake up, and the smile that follows. I want to be the warmth that fills the space in your bed. I don’t want to share you."
"I’ve never felt this way before that’s probably why I’m so scared. I’ve never been able to be with someone and have no worries. I’ve never been able to look at someone over and over again and it feel as if it’s the first time I’ve ever looked at her. I’ve never had my hand fit so perfectly into someone else. My lips lock so gently upon hers. My body molds so perfectly into hers. Her words clash into mine like the stars in the sky. Her eyes make me feel like I’m looking at the first sunset I’ve ever seen. Her hair smells like the most beautiful flowers in the world. When I told her I loved her, I didn’t just fall in love with her, my body did because when I lay in bed and she’s not beside me it’s the loneliest I’ve ever been. So when I tell you I love you, you’ll never understand what I’m truly saying, so please don’t leave because words will never explain the amount of feelings I’ve grown for you."
"I fucked the wrong people
I slid my tongue
In the wrong mouths
I sipped too many drinks
Of alcohol
And smoked too many cigarettes"

But I won’t apologize for the ways I killed my sadness
"When it’s over, leave. Don’t continue watering a dead flower."
"I didn’t realize how badly I was treated until someone started treating me with respect."
"My desires in a relationship have changed over time. I no longer want someone who promises to always love me and never leave me, I need someone who understands that life happens and sometimes things don’t work out. I don’t want someone who sugar coats things and never gets angry with me, I need someone to tell me how it really is and put me in my place. I need to be able to go five hours without talking to you and not feel lost or incomplete. I am complete without you. But with you, I want to be so much better. I want to be stronger with you. I want us to grow together and help each other grow individually. I don’t need you, but I really fucking want you. And this may not work out, but the fact that you understand all of this and this how our relationship works, makes me think we’ve got a pretty good shot."
"It scares me to death to think that one day I might look back into my life and realize that I lived it painfully ordinary."
"If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away."
"Whether it’s a week or 6 months, being away from the person you love is heartbreaking"
"When you stop chasing, they start noticing."
"Say “Hi” first. If there’s anything I’ve learned, it’s that if you want to talk to someone, talk to them. go out on a limb. Do not wait for them to talk to you first because, odds are, they’re waiting for the same thing."
"Yes, we could’ve been great but I find a strange comfort in knowing you aren’t going to be my best."
"I can’t exactly describe how I feel, but it’s not quite right. And it leaves me cold."
"If she’s too good for you, my god, don’t leave her. Make an effort to be good enough instead."
"I don’t care how complicated this gets, I still want you."
"I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn’t matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together. -Julia Roberts"
"Come wrap your body around mine."
"Let’s continue this conversation in bed, she whispered, my legs can’t wait to hear what your hands have to say."
"Do not let the behaviour of others destroy your inner peace."
"My mind is stuck on you."
"I can be someone’s and still be my own."
"A culture disconnected from wild nature becomes insane."
"I hope you find someone that
mindlessly strokes your legs and
massages your back and plays with
your hair and I hope that you feel like
You’re home when you look at them."
"Do not mock a pain that you haven’t endured."
"Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong."
"Nothing in the world smells as good as the person you love."
"No one asks if I’m okay and I’m both grateful and disappointed."
"Perhaps we’ll meet again when we’re better for each other."
I swear that when our lips touch, I can taste the next sixty years
"Give. Even when you know you can get nothing back."
"We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic to creativity. When we get home, home is still the same, but something in our minds has changed, and that changes everything."
"I love you. It’s as simple as that. I have fallen for you so damn hard and nothing could ever change that. You are perfect to me, everything you say and do is lovely. I could stare at you all day and still be awed by your beauty. You could read an entire book aloud to me and your voice would still give me shivers. There is absolutely nothing wrong with you. I love you and I will never ever stop. It’s you and me, always."
“I just want to kiss you until you’re not sad anymore, and I know I can’t because that would take an infinite amount of kisses, but my God I would try.

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Quotes

"Learn your religion. Do not inherit it."

"If you can see a future without me and that doesn’t break your heart then we’re not doing what I thought we were doing here."

"When you meet the right person, you know it. You can’t stop thinking about them. They’re your best friend… and your soul mate. You can’t wait to spend the rest of your life with them. No one and nothing else can compare."

I love the rain. I love how it softens the outlines of things. The world becomes softly blurred, and I feel like I melt right into it."

"You can never explain how painful it is to say goodbye to someone you love."

"I’m trying to burn the past but i just keep choking on the ashes and I really wish our memories would go up in flames like your love for me did."

"The worst distance between two people is misunderstanding."

"Never miss an opportunity to tell someone how much they mean to you."

"I just wanna go on more adventures. Be around good energy. Connect with people. Learn new things. Grow."

"All I need is some affection. Not even sexual. Just someone to run there fingers through my hair, across my arm or even just hold my hand and kiss my forehead."

"The person you’re meant to be with will never have to be chased, begged or given an ultimatum."

"I am too full of lifeto be half loved."

"happiness is your ability to withstand sadness"

"it’s okay if the only thing you did today was breathe."

"I love that moment. When you’re on a long car ride, or listening to music, or reading. And you completely zone out. You forget your troubles, and everyone around you. You’re focused on that one thing, and that one thing only. You’re content, and everything seems peaceful."

"Nice people don’t necessarily fall in love with nice people."

"The most difficult people to be loved, are the most in need of love."

"Let it go. Whatever it is that you should’ve let go long ago. Let it go. The freedom that comes next is something wild and true."

"I think I fall in love a little bit with anyone who shows me their soul. This world is so guarded and fearful. I appreciate rawness so much."

"And when you love something, you don’t threaten it. You don’t punish it. You fight for it. You take care of it. You put it first."

If you find parts of yourself missing, do not search for them in somebody else. I swear you will find them one day; and if not, you will discover pieces you have never seen before. You are not a simple work of art. You are the entire museum.

"Her eyes have their own vocabulary. What a beautiful language to learn."

I know there was something before you. I just can’t remember what it was.

"Don’t set yourself on fire to keep others warm."

"Love doesn’t hurt, loving the wrong person does."

Real love doesn’t meet you at your best. It meets you in your mess.

"Psychology says, always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to help you grow"

"Like a shadow,I am and I am not.

"But I must admit I miss you terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby."

She knows I’m crazy about her. All she has to do is blink and my heart starts pounding like a drum."

"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."

"She loved the oceanbecause every time the wavesleft the shore,they always came back."

"I need someone who will sit on a rooftop with me at 2 in the morning and will tell me their favorite songs and their family problems and how they think the earth was made"

"I just, I can’t describe what I feel for you but it starts from the pit of my stomach and warms my chest until I can practically feel every nerve ending in my body and all I want is for you to touch my skin."

"Somedays being me is too much and somedays being me is not enough."

"I love you like the woman I am now. Not the girl I was. I’m battered and bruised and I’m tougher, but I’m still here. I’m scared to death, but I’m more frightened of a life without you."

"Almost. It’s a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe."

"I don’t care how complicated this gets, I still want you

"Learn your religion. Do not inherit it."

"Because this is my life. And that’s the only explanation you will ever need."

Sometimes I find myself crying in my room, wishing to go home. Then I realize, I am home. But I’m not happy here. I’m so fucking homesick, but I’m homesick for a place that doesn’t even exist.

"Tell me every terrible thing you did, and let me love you anyway."

"I wish I was better with my words because you deserve someone who could tell you just how perfect you really are but I swear, the day I finally get to show you, you’ll understand just what I meant every time some mangled mess of nonsense came spewing out"

"Learn to say ‘no’ without explaining yourself."

-I’m not searching for my other half because I’m not a half.

"Sometimes not telling people anything is a good thing."

"I didn’t become heartless , I just became smarter. My happiness will not depend on someone else . Not anymore"

"Just when I think I’m okay. Just when I think I’m happy, something happens and my stomach drops. All of a sudden, it’s all falling apart."

"I fell in love with the way you touched me without using your hands."

"You will be shocked, kids, when you discover how easy it is in life to part ways with people forever.That’s why, when you find someone you want to keep around, you do something about it."

"How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you’ll never meet them. All right, so we do the best we can. Granted. But we must still realize that love is just the result of a chance encounter."

"Pay close attention to the people who don’t clap when you win."

"The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet."

"Cause I’d rather fight with you than laugh with another"

"I do not desire mediocre love. I want to drown in someone."

"I want you. I want your sleepy confused look when you wake up, and the smile that follows. I want to be the warmth that fills the space in your bed. I don’t want to share you."

"I fucked the wrong peopleI slid my tongueIn the wrong mouthsI sipped too many drinksOf alcoholAnd smoked too many cigarettes"

"When it’s over, leave. Don’t continue watering a dead flower."

"I didn’t realize how badly I was treated until someone started treating me with respect."

"If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away."

"Whether it’s a week or 6 months, being away from the person you love is heartbreaking"

"When you stop chasing, they start noticing."

"Say “Hi” first. If there’s anything I’ve learned, it’s that if you want to talk to someone, talk to them. go out on a limb. Do not wait for them to talk to you first because, odds are, they’re waiting for the same thing."

"Yes, we could’ve been great but I find a strange comfort in knowing you aren’t going to be my best."

"I can’t exactly describe how I feel, but it’s not quite right. And it leaves me cold."

"If she’s too good for you, my god, don’t leave her. Make an effort to be good enough instead."

"I don’t care how complicated this gets, I still want you."

"I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn’t matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together. -Julia Roberts"

"Come wrap your body around mine."

"Let’s continue this conversation in bed, she whispered, my legs can’t wait to hear what your hands have to say."

"Do not let the behaviour of others destroy your inner peace."

"My mind is stuck on you."

"I can be someone’s and still be my own."

"A culture disconnected from wild nature becomes insane."

"I hope you find someone thatmindlessly strokes your legs andmassages your back and plays withyour hair and I hope that you feel likeYou’re home when you look at them."

"Do not mock a pain that you haven’t endured."

"Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong."

"Nothing in the world smells as good as the person you love."

"I am too full of life
to be half loved."

If you find parts of yourself missing, do not search for them in somebody else.

I swear you will find them one day; and if not, you will discover pieces you have never seen before.

You are not a simple work of art.
You are the entire museum.

I know there was something before you.

I just can’t remember what it was.

Real love doesn’t meet you at your best.

It meets you in your mess.

"Like a shadow,
I am and I am not.

"She loved the ocean
because every time the waves
left the shore,
they always came back."

Sometimes I find myself crying in my room, wishing to go home.

Then I realize, I am home. But I’m not happy here.

I’m so fucking homesick, but I’m homesick for a place that doesn’t even exist.

"You will be shocked, kids, when you discover how easy it is in life to part ways with people forever.

That’s why, when you find someone you want to keep around, you do something about it."

"I fucked the wrong people
I slid my tongue
In the wrong mouths
I sipped too many drinks
Of alcohol
And smoked too many cigarettes"

"I hope you find someone that
mindlessly strokes your legs and
massages your back and plays with
your hair and I hope that you feel like
You’re home when you look at them."