“Let Someone Love You The Way You Are - As Flawed As You Might Be, As Unattractive As You Sometimes

“We all have souls of different ages.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Please don’t, above all, plant me in your heart. I grow too quick.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don’t get to decide that you didn’t.”

— Louis C.K. (via thoughtkick)

“I’m scared to see you with someone else.”

— Unknown

I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.

- Jaime Gil De Biedma

“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.”

— Franz Kafka

“We’re all more than the person we show to everyone else. At least I hope so. Because I feel like there’s more to me than that. I just haven’t had the chance yet to show it.”

— Jessi Kirby, Golden

Franz Wright, from God's Silence; "East Boston, 1996"

[Text ID: The long silences need to be loved, perhaps / more than the words / which arrive / to describe them / in time.]

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

— Unknown

“Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.”

— Sylvia Plath