“You Are Worth Finding. Worth Knowing. Worth Loving. You And Your One Million Layers.”

by Victoria Edwards (Instagram)

“Be confused, it’s where you begin to learn new things. Be broken, it’s where you begin to heal. Be frustrated, it’s where you start to make more authentic decisions. Be sad, because if we are brave enough we can hear our heart’s wisdom through it. Be whatever you are right now. No more hiding. You are worthy, always.”

— S.C. Lourie

“Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“I used to dislike being sensitive. I thought it made me weak. But take away that single trait, and you take away the very essence of who I am. You take away my conscience, my ability to empathize, my intuition, my creativity, my deep appreciation for the little things, my vivid inner life, my deep awareness of others’ pain, and my passion for it all.”

— Unknown

“That’s the thing about introverts; we wear our chaos in the inside where no one can see it.”

— Michaela Chung

The intimacy of reading while someone you love sits close to you, reading their own book with your head on their lap playing with your hair, twirling and twisting your hair stands, being so comfortable with each other that it feels so natural, like you are truely home with peace and tranquility......

when people from real life stumble upon your tumblr and you’re just

“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

“Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.”

— Walter Benjamin, “Unpacking My Library: A Talk About Book Collecting”