Fall in love with someone who’s comfortable with your silence. Find someone who doesn’t need your words to know it’s time to kiss you.

Unknown

"Nostos," by Louise Glück

We all grew up and did the things we said we’d never do.

Unknown

I’m bleeding,          I’m not just making conversation.

Richard Siken, from Crush (2005)

You cannot always be happy but you can always be brave. And that is the beginning of everything.

Unknown

I was quiet; but I was not blind.

Jane Austen

We pretend that we don't care. But we care.

Lorde // Sober

He knew that I love you also means I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I say, “mama I wanna die.” “Aww, don’t think that,” she replies I cry, “my life is the bluest sky.” “But you’ll go to hell,” she sighs I love to live, but I live to love! I am not understood by my changes of mood and therefore, I am without love! Maybe God will forgive me and I will enter paradise with a smile from all the angels and the saints. Maybe God will kiss me as soon as I say “Hello I said goodbye to life because with all my tragedy and taints.” I say, “mama I wanna die.” “Aww, don’t think that,” she replies I cry, “my life is the bluest sky.” “But you’ll go to hell,” she sighs I don’t know what’s worse: Burning inside a scorching building or breaking free from the window and hope that I grow feathers? Suicide is pain from life when life is like an inferno but truth be told my heart in the aftermath of an autopsy: “I am not a heart made from snow!” I say, “mama I wanna die.” “Aww, don’t think that,” she replies I cry, “my life is the bluest sky.” “But you’ll go to hell,” she sighs I am the prince of darkness who loves the twinkling stars of the night; I am crying out my torment and go to sleep at first sight of the light. I suffer, I live – despite!

Juansen Ryne Dizon, Mama I wanna die

Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.

Madeleine L'Engle

I'm not who I was one year ago and maybe, just this once, change is good.

E. Grin

Life went on without you. Of course, it did. Of course, it does. It was just an ending, not the end.

Lang Leav

How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.

Rupi Kaur // milk & honey

“И слезы ей — вода, и кровь — Вода, — в крови, в слезах умылася! Не мать, а мачеха — Любовь: Не ждите ни суда, ни милости.”

Yesterday he still looked in my eyes (Вчера еще в глаза глядел), Marina Tsvetaeva

Why do people stay longer in my head than they do in my life?

Unknown

What other people think and say about you is none of your business. The most destructive thing you would ever do is to believe someone else's opinion of you. You have to stop letting other people's opinions control you.

Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

you do not need to explain your decisions to anybody if you don’t feel comfortable doing so

Unknown

I like to listen. I have learnt a lot from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway

(...) do what you have to do—unrecognized—and for no one.

Charles Wright, from Cake Walk in “Caribou: Poems”