- “Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them—at least I didn’t; to phrase them was to invent them and own them.”
- “After all, what’s a life, anyway? We’re born, we live a little while, we die.”
- “And you think of the line he drew in the sand, the one you can’t seem to put a foot past. Like a tripwire, you’re afraid of the damage but you know you can’t keep standing still.”
- “Be like snow; beautiful but cold.”
- “Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.”
- “Don’t let the heart that didn’t love you, keep you from the one that will.”
- “Everybody isn’t going to love you. Most people don’t even love themselves.”
- “Hearts are breakable,” Isabelle said. “And I think even when you heal, you’re never what you were before”.”
- “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.”
- “How does your life move forward, when all you want to do is hold still.”
- “How fragile we are, between the few good moments.”
- “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
- “I don’t hate people. I just feel better when they aren’t around.”
- “I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.”
- “I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”
- “I tell people not to be afraid of their fears; because their fears are not there to scare them, they’re there to let them know that something is worth it. Yet I am often afraid. I guess that means in my life, lots of things have been worth it!”
- “I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.”
- “I wish you would stay home long enough to see how broken I am. Maybe then you’d see what you were doing to me, maybe then I wouldn’t feel so alone.”
- “I’m really trusting, almost to my own demise. When you trust people so much that you aren’t able to see their true intentions, it can really hurt you in the end.”
- “If I’m not better after being around you or having a conversation with you don’t expect us to talk a lot or to see me often. Time is too important to waste on things that don’t improve me as a person.”
- “It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.”
- “It’s better to have nobody, than to have someone who is half there, or doesn’t want to be there.”
- “Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
- “One day, you realise that there are some people you’ll never see again. At least, not in the same way.”
- “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
- “Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.”
- “She realised, when relationships failed to last, it was not because love was no longer present, but because people had stopped believing in themselves and in their partners.”
- “Slowly, like a film fade-out, the real world evaporates. I’m alone, inside the world of the story. My favourite feeling in the world.”
- “Sometimes not telling people anything is a good thing.”
- “Sometimes people just want to be happy, even if it’s not real.”
- “The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
- “The frost of loneliness makes me shiver.”
- “The worst thing about falling to pieces is that humans can do it so quietly.”
- “There ain’t no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.”
- “There comes a point when apologies seem more like broken records rather than genuine contrition. It’s like they say it for their own benefit— to ease their guilt and quiet their conscience, rather than to make amends with those they have done wrong. Because why would you even bother to say sorry, if you’re going to do it over and over again?”
- “There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find ways in which you yourself have altered.”
- “Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
- “We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”
- “We’re stronger in the places that we’ve been broken.”
- “When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”
- “You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won’t mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever…. connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.”
- “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
- “You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn’t care about losing you.”
- “You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That’s the only thing you should be trying to control.”
- “continents drift, and so do people. this is how we make new homes.”
- “I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean towards the opposite.”
- “I appreciate the people who love and understand me. Even when I’m hurt and pushing people away they know me better and push back with love and support.”
- “Sometimes, I could just take comfort Knowing that you are there, Somewhere- Living in the same world as me.”
- “I’m numb and I’m tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if I’d been out in a pounding rain for forty-eight hours without an umbrella or a coat. I’m soaked to the skin with emotion.”
jan 2 2014 ∞
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