“please Don’t Come Closer Unless You Plan To Stay”

“I write to find out what I’m thinking.”

— Julia Alvarez

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

“Just because you don’t say much doesn’t mean people don’t notice you. It’s actually the quiet ones who often draw the most attention.”

— Amy Efaw

When you can feel it without even having to think about it, that’s when you know. Your heart, my dear, is trying to tell you something.

Nicole Addison | thepowerwithin

“It’s okay if I’m not your favorite chapter you have written, but I hope you sometimes smile when you flip back to the pages I was still apart of.”

— Unknown

“I just want to be the answer you give when someone asks you why you’ve been so happy lately.”

— iammyss

Emery Allen, “Soft Human”

“I think you are having a different sort of heartbreak. Maybe a kind of heartbreak of being in the world when you don’t know how to be. If that makes any sense?”

— Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“We hide pain in the weirdest places, broken souls and smiling faces.”

— Stars Go Dim, “You Are Loved”

“You cannot make someone understand a message they are not ready to receive.”

— Unknown