Where exactly do you put your hands on somebody who hurts everywhere?
Charles D’Ambrosio, “Screenwriter” (via lifeinpoetry)
Tag: quote
But I have seen the best of you and the worst of you, and I choose both.
Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye, An Origin Story (via sarrahpaulson)
If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and, if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the Universe would turn into a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it.
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey (via stuff—n—things)
It hurts every day, the absence of someone who was once there.
Marie Lu, Champion (via larmoyante)
It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on this earth as though I had a right to be here.
James Baldwin (via daddypetsyou)
Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.
Elizabeth Taylor
People speak sometimes about the ‘bestial’ cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via seaworth)
She wants to know if I love her, that’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (p. 130)
I am afraid of getting older. I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day—spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free… I want, I want to think, to be omniscient.
Sylvia Plath written in 1949 at age 17. (via blackbruise)
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