“You Are Most Powerful When You Are Most Silent. People Never Expect Silence. They Expect Words, Motion,

“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)

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

Nikita Gill

“You may be slow to warm up, but once you do, you light up the whole room.”

— Jenna Evans Welch

Reblog this if you are literally suprised when people find you attractive.

“Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.”

— Tahereh Mafi

“Do yourself a favor and learn how to walk away. When a connection starts to fade, learn how to let it go. When a person starts to mistreat you, learn how to move on … to something and someone better. Don’t waste your energy trying to force something that isn’t meant to be.”

— Reyna Biddy

“Inside of all of us there is the need and the desire to be heard, to have our innermost thoughts, feelings and desires expressed for others to hear, to see and to understand. We all want to matter to someone.”

— Vicktor Alexander

“Do you know how much thinking and feeling I’ve done? It’s terrible. And nothing’s come of it.”

— Andrei Platonov, Happy Moscow.

“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