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“I’d much rather have one great person to talk to every night than have several pointless conversations with temporary people.”

— 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

“To have someone understand your mind is a different kind of intimacy.”

— Unknown

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

— Unknown

“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.”

— Henry David Thoureau

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

— 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 (via thoughtkick)

“Listen to me. I’m shy. I’m not stupid. I can’t meet people’s eyes. I don’t know if you understand what that’s like. There’s a whole world going on around me, I’m aware of that. It’s not because I don’t want to look at you, Lucinda. It’s that I don’t want to be seen.”

— Jonathan Lethem, You Don’t Love Me Yet

“I want a bond so tight that even on bad terms u still run to me 1st.”

— Unknown

“Be confused, it’s where you begin to learn new things. Be broken, it’s where you begin to heal. Be frustrated, it’s where you start to make more authentic decisions. Be sad, because if we are brave enough we can hear our heart’s wisdom through it. Be whatever you are right now. No more hiding. You are worthy, always.”

— S.C. Lourie

“We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm - yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.”

— E.M. Forster

“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

“Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.””

— Virginia Woolf

“A novel is a commodity that fulfills a certain need; people need to buy daydreams like they need to buy ice cream or aspirin or gin.”

— John Dos Passos, b. 14 January 1896

“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

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

“There are two reasons why people don’t talk about things; either it doesn’t mean anything to them, or it means everything.”

— Unknown

when you think you have nothing left you still have the moon, sunsets, your favorite music, paper to write on, warm clothes, new starts and your cute self

“If I were consistent with what I now feel, I should bite my veins out, let them drip in every corner until I run dry.”

— poetry-siir ©

“The most confused we ever get is when we’re trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.”

— Karen Marie Moning

“When I met you, flowers started growing in the darkest parts of my mind.”

— Unkown

“I’m not fascinated by people who smile all the time. What I find interesting is the way people look when they are lost in thought, when their face becomes angry or serious, when they bite their lip, the way they glance, the way they look down when they walk, when they are alone and smoking a cigarette, when they smirk, the way they half smile, the way they try and hold back tears, the way when their face says they want to say something but can’t, the way they look at someone they want or love… I love the way people look when they do these things. It’s… beautiful.”

— Clemence Poésy

“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.”

— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

When Morticia Addams said, "Life’s not all lovely thorns and singing vultures, you know," and, "Hearts are wild creatures, that’s why our ribs are cages."

Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924)

“We all have souls of different ages.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I’m a master of speaking silently, all my life I’ve spoken silently and I’ve lived through entire tragedies in silence.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky