“If You Can’t Figure Out Where You Stand With Someone, It Might Be Time To Stop Standing And Start

Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980

“People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them.”

— Veronica Roth (via thoughtkick)

“There are persons who honestly do not see the use of books in the home, either for information — have they not radio and even television? — or for decoration — is there not the wallpaper?”

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Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) American writer

“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

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

“I will never be good enough for everybody. But I am the best for someone who really appreciates me.”

— Unknown

humans are obsessed with escapism - through movies, books, music, art, daydreams. our souls really weren’t made for this world.

“please don’t come closer unless you plan to stay”

— 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

by Victoria Edwards (Instagram)