junaidwarrior

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“We’re all more than the person we show to everyone else. At least I hope so. Because I feel like there’s more to me than that. I just haven’t had the chance yet to show it.”

— Jessi Kirby, Golden

“Why can’t people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”

— David Baldacci, The Camel Club

“I’m scared to see you with someone else.”

— Unknown

“Wait for someone who love you differently. One who can see the fire in your soul, and the child in your laugh, and the ocean in your heart.”

— JmStorm

“I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.”

— John Keats

“I write to find out what I’m thinking.”

— Julia Alvarez

“There are some things about myself I can’t explain to anyone. There are some things I don’t understand at all. I can’t tell what I think about things or what I’m after. I don’t know what my strengths are or what I’m supposed to do about them. But if I start thinking about these things in too much detail the whole thing gets scary. And if I get scared I can only think about myself. I become really self- centered, and without meaning to, I hurt people. So I’m not such a wonderful human being.”

— Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes

“The sunrise, of course, doesn’t care if we watch it or not. It will keep on being beautiful, even if no one bothers to look at it.”

— Gene Amole

Emery Allen, “Soft Human”

“Just because you don’t say much doesn’t mean people don’t notice you. It’s actually the quiet ones who often draw the most attention.”

— Amy Efaw

“I will not have you without the darkness that hides within you. I will not let you have me without the madness that makes me. If our demons cannot dance, neither can we.”

— Nikita Gill

Nikita Gill

“I want to talk about what happened without mentioning how much it hurt. There has to be a way. To care for the wounds without reopening them. To name the pain without inviting it back into me.”

— Lora Mathis

“We often want it so badly that we ruin it before it begins. Overthinking. Fantasizing. Imagining. Expecting. Worrying. Doubting. Just let it naturally evolve”

— Unknown

“Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.”

— Sylvia Plath

“But my anxious heart is eating up my body, eating up my nerves, eating up my brain. I feel this poison slowly filling my veins - every particle becoming slowly tainted…. I am never, never calm, never for an instant.”

— Katherine Mansfield, from a diary entry featured in “ The Diaries of Katherine Mansfield,”

“I think you are having a different sort of heartbreak. Maybe a kind of heartbreak of being in the world when you don’t know how to be. If that makes any sense?”

— Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“No matter how careful you are, there’s going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn’t experience it all. There’s that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should’ve been paying attention..”

— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

You are killing me, and you are keeping me from dying. That is love.

- Mahmoud Darwish.

I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.

- Jaime Gil De Biedma

When Franz Kafka said, "Perhaps it isn't love when I say you are what I love the most - you are the knife that I turn inside myself, this is love" and when Fruit Bats said, "When you love somebody and bite your tongue, all you get is a mouth full of blood"

"Not everyone can feel things as deeply as you. Most people, their feelings are.. bland, tasteless. They'll never understand what it's like to read a poem and feel almost like they're flying, or to see a bleeding fish and feel grief shatters their heart."

- Juliann Garey, Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See

I hope that someday when I'm gone, someone somewhere, picks my soul up off of these pages and thinks, "I would have loved her."

-Nicole Lyons

"I've always liked quiet people: You never know if they're dancing in a daydream or if they're carrying the weight of the world."

- John Green (Looking for Alaska)

“I want to wake up with you beside me in the mornings. I want to spend my evenings looking at you across the dinner table. I want to share every mundane detail of my day with you and hear every detail of yours. I want to laugh with you and fall asleep with you in my arms.”

— Nicholas Sparks

“One smile, can start a friendship. One word, can end a fight. One look, can save a relationship. One person can change your life”

— Unknown

“Don’t ask yourself what you did wrong or how you could have done it differently. Don’t waste your valuable heart and mind trying to figure out why he did what he did. Or thinking back on all the things he said, and wondering what was the truth and what was the lie. The only thing you need to know is that it’s really good news: He’s gone.”

— Greg Behrendt, He’s Just Not That Into You

“Your truest friends are the ones who stand by you in your darkest moments, because they are willing to brave the shadows with you, and in your greatest moments, because they are not afraid to let you shine.”

— Nicole Yatsonsky

“Nothing’s changed. You’ll go home. You’ll be bored. You’ll be ignored. No one will listen to you, really listen to you. You’re too clever and too quiet for them to understand. They don’t even get your name right.”

— Neil Gaiman, Coraline