“I get way too sensitive when I get attached to someone. I can detect the slightest changed in the tone of their voice, and suddenly I’m spending all day trying to figure out what I did wrong.”
— Brandon Stanton (via perrfectly)
Some eyes touch you more than hands ever could.
dont reblog if youre not a trauma survivor // 6.2.17
“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“You cannot make someone understand a message they are not ready to receive.”
— Unknown
“Staying quiet doesn’t mean I have nothing to say, it means I don’t think you’re ready to hear my thoughts.”
— Unknown
“There are some feelings you will never find words for; you will learn to name them after the ones who gave them to you.”
— Maza Dohta
“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.”
— E.E. Cummings
by Victoria Edwards (Instagram)
“Beware of the doctor, whose wife sells cemetery plots, whose brother owns a granite quarry, and whose father deals in shovels.”
— Unknown
“Listen to me. I’m shy. I’m not stupid. I can’t meet people’s eyes. I don’t know if you understand what that’s like. There’s a whole world going on around me, I’m aware of that. It’s not because I don’t want to look at you, Lucinda. It’s that I don’t want to be seen.”
— Jonathan Lethem, You Don’t Love Me Yet