“There Are Some Things About Myself I Can’t Explain To Anyone. There Are Some Things I Don’t Understand

“If you can’t figure out where you stand with someone, it might be time to stop standing and start walking.”

— Unknown

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

— -3 am thoughts (via suspend)

“I want to talk to you. Of course I want to talk to you. I’m just not too sure you want to talk to me.”

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Quiet people are aware that they are quiet. You don’t need to remind them.

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

— Tahereh Mafi

“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.”

— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

Intellectual stimulation is a must for me.

“I will not have you without the darkness that hides within you. I will not let you have me without the madness that makes me. If our demons cannot dance, neither can we.”

— Nikita Gill

Whoever first said that poetry is dead failed to provide the autopsy. If poetry is dead, what a rowdy and glorious ghost. Poetry haunts. Poetry permeates the walls we put up. Poetry startles us awake and into our own aliveness. Poetry rustles the hairs on the backs of our necks and chases us into more compassionate rooms. Though it is difficult to change a stubborn mind, poetry can change our hearts in an instant.

Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley, from How Poetry Can Change Your Heart