“This is what I like about photographs. They’re proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.”
— Jodi Picoult
"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
“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.”
— Neil Gaiman (via nightlyquotes)
“I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.”
— John Keats
Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924)
“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 hide pain in the weirdest places, broken souls and smiling faces.”
— Stars Go Dim, “You Are Loved”
Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980
by Victoria Edwards (Instagram)
I appreciate anybody who reach out to me becuz I kno ima distant person