“I’m Not Open With Many People. I’m Usually Very Quiet And I Don’t Really Like Attention. So

“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

i hope i am not just a tumblr account to you but someone who you’d decay in an ancient forest with

“Your heart understood mine. In the depth of the fragrant night, I listened with ravished soul to your beloved voice. Your heart understood mine.”

— Louisa May Alcott

”I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.”

Virginia Woolf

“You are worth finding. Worth knowing. Worth loving. You and your one million layers.”

— Unknown

“If you can’t figure out where you stand with someone, it might be time to stop standing and start walking.”

— Unknown

“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.”

— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm - yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.”

— E.M. Forster