"I've Always Liked Quiet People: You Never Know If They're Dancing In A Daydream Or If They're Carrying

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

— Tahereh Mafi

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

- Jaime Gil De Biedma

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

When Franz Kafka said, "Perhaps it isn't love when I say you are what I love the most - you are the knife that I turn inside myself, this is love" and when Fruit Bats said, "When you love somebody and bite your tongue, all you get is a mouth full of blood"

“Sitting silently with a friend who is hurting may be the best gift we can give.”

— Unknown

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

“No matter how careful you are, there’s going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn’t experience it all. There’s that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should’ve been paying attention..”

— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“The deeper the wound, the more private the pain.”

— Isabel Allende, Paula