killingiiit:

know what I hate? When you try really hard with a person and they just don’t fucking see it. Whether it’s a friend, significant other, parent, etc…. like u could literally rip ur heart out of your chest, give them ur last breath, AND cut a limb off for them, but it goes unnoticed. it’s the fact that I care about people that do not give a shit about me. My heart is too big and that shit’s the worst.

I want too much, she thought. I want everything. I want day and night, sleeping and waking, world without end, amen. Someone warned her once that it was fatal to tell a man you loved him. ‘What I really want,’ she said, ‘deep down, is stillness, safety. The feeling you’d always be there. I love you. I think I must have loved you without knowing it all my life.’

Daphne Du Maurier, Don’t Look Now & Other Stories
(via the-book-diaries)