- "I don’t chase people anymore. I learned that I’m here, and I’m important. I’m not going to run after people to prove that I matter."
- "He’d never cared much for strawberries, but that summer her lips were so stained with the juices that they were all he tasted. And he’d never had a favourite fruit, but two years later, a new girl is sat in front of him, laughing at his jokes. "If you could only eat one thing for the rest of your life, what would it be?" She asks playfully. And he remembers how her hands traced the veins in his neck and made their way across his chest. He remembers her soft breathing and limbs draped across his shoulders. "Strawberries." He tells her. "I could live a life on nothing but strawberries.""
- "Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand." — Sylvia Plath
- "Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know- because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand." — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
- "Sometimes you meet someone, and it’s so clear that the two of you, on some level belong together. As lovers, or as friends, or as family, or as something entirely different. You just work, whether you understand one another or you’re in love or you’re partners in crime. You meet these people throughout your life, out of nowhere, under the strangest circumstances, and they help you feel alive. I don’t know if that makes me believe in coincidence, or fate, or sheer blind luck, but it definitely makes me believe in something."
dec 1 2014 ∞
dec 1 2014 +