You Are Killing Me, And You Are Keeping Me From Dying. That Is Love.

“There are some things about myself I can’t explain to anyone. There are some things I don’t understand at all. I can’t tell what I think about things or what I’m after. I don’t know what my strengths are or what I’m supposed to do about them. But if I start thinking about these things in too much detail the whole thing gets scary. And if I get scared I can only think about myself. I become really self- centered, and without meaning to, I hurt people. So I’m not such a wonderful human being.”

— Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes

“Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“And it seems I must always write you letters that I can never send.”

— Sylvia Plath

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

— Unknown

“People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them.”

— Veronica Roth

“I am the dark and I am the light, I am the moon and I am the starless night sky. Fall in love with all that I am or please, do not fall in love with me at all.”

— Unknown

“I have a list in my head of all the feelings I still want to feel before I die. And you have ticked so many things off that list.”

— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You

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

— Unknown

“That’s the thing about introverts; we wear our chaos in the inside where no one can see it.”

— Michaela Chung