“She is water: soft enough to offer life, tough enough to drown it away.”— Rupi Kaur
“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”— John Updike, My Father’s Tears and Other Stories
“I feel very small. I don’t understand. I have so much courage, fire, energy, for many things, yet I get so hurt, so wounded by small things.”
Anaïs Nin, from nearer the moon: the previously unpublished unexpurgated diary,1937-1939
Kate Chopin, from The Awakening
[ID: A thousand emotions have swept through me to-night. I don’t comprehend half of them. END ID.]
Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits
The hypocrisy of being human; the constant tug between solitude and company, the desire to love so desperately and simultaneously be detached from it all, of wanting everything and wanting nothing.
—mattmurdock-gf on Tumblr
“my mom told me.. “a person who values you, wouldn’t ever put themselves in a position to lose you.” and that really hit deep.”— Unknown
“Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.”— Charlie Chaplin in a letter to his daughter, Geraldine
