• If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. — Montesquieu
  • I will love you when you are a still day. I will love you when you are a hurricane.
  • how to keep your mother as something holy—what do you do when she becomes human in the yellow light? ... don’t you tuck god away on the shelf until you can talk to them again, until you’re ready to figure it out — emily palermo's
  • “You can’t love someone unless you love yourself first” Bullshit. I have never loved myself. But you, oh god, I loved you so much I forgot what hating myself felt like.
  • "The thing is,” he says, “if you’re going to let someone in to make you happy, you better be prepared to let them make you equally sad."
feb 17 2016 ∞
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