dont reblog if youre not a trauma survivor // 6.2.17
“I want a bond so tight that even on bad terms u still run to me 1st.”
— Unknown
“It’s okay if I’m not your favorite chapter you have written, but I hope you sometimes smile when you flip back to the pages I was still apart of.”
— 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
“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“You are worth finding. Worth knowing. Worth loving. You and your one million layers.”
— Unknown
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"
Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924)
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