“There’s Something Beautiful About Keeping Certain Aspects Of Your Life Hidden. Maybe People And

“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

“I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.”

— John Keats

“Beware of the doctor, whose wife sells cemetery plots, whose brother owns a granite quarry, and whose father deals in shovels.”

— Unknown

Adonis, tr. by Khaled Mattawa, Selected Poems

“It makes me sad waking up alone when there’s someone willing to wake up with me”

— -3 am thoughts (via suspend)

my blog truly reflects my life.. inconsistent.. disorganised… annoying

“But my anxious heart is eating up my body, eating up my nerves, eating up my brain. I feel this poison slowly filling my veins - every particle becoming slowly tainted…. I am never, never calm, never for an instant.”

— Katherine Mansfield, from a diary entry featured in “ The Diaries of Katherine Mansfield,”

“Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.”

— E.E. Cummings

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”

— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

i literally have no problem texting first as long as u make me feel like u actually wanna talk