How Rare And Lovely, The Comfort Of Silence With Another Soul.

Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, from The Sleepwalker

[Text ID: "I'm scared, but it doesn't mater, I thought maybe I should wait for some other love, but it would have been a mistake. There's no greater love than what I feel for you."]

—Albert Camus

— Nikita Gill

I’ll never be the loudest in the room, but I’ll always be the one who notices when you need a quiet place to breathe.

"i wonder if we ever think of each other at the same time."

i honestly don’t have faith in finding something super special with someone else because this generation is so far detached from their own emotions as well as others. and not all are detached because of being hurt, a lot of people have acted detached and nonchalant to seem cool. they’ve settled so far into fake emotions that they’ve made a problem for themselves and others while pretending so hard they became it. it’s not cool to act detached. it’s not cool to act nonchalant. that is how you miss some of your greatest connections. as someone who has actually been hurt before, this facade put on is dreadful.

Joy Sullivan, from “These Days People Are Really Selling Me On California”, Instructions for Traveling West

― Dorothea Grossman