“I Most Always Smile Out Of Spite. I Sometimes Stay Alive Out Of Spite.”

“I have clawed my way to okay and it will just have to do for now.”

— Rachel Wiley, from Nothing is Okay

“Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.”

— Haruki Murakami

You are the knife I turn inside myself.

Franz Kafka

“I think the reason pawns can’t move backwards is because if they could, they’d kill their own kings in a heartbeat.”

— Guante, “The Family Business”

“The body politic, like the human body, begins to die from its birth, and bears in itself the causes of its destruction.” - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

via schulzmuseum

"There is a loneliness in this world so great

that you can see it in the slow movement of

the hands of a clock.

People so tired,

mutilated,

either by love or no love.

People are just not good to each other

one on one.

The rich are not good to the rich

the poor are not good to the poor.

We are afraid.

Our educational system tells us

that we can all be

big-ass winners.

It hasn't told us

about the gutters

or the suicides.

Or the terror of one person

aching in one place

alone

untouched

unspoken to

watering a plant".

- Charles Bukowski

Danez Smith, Don't Call Us Dead

How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?

Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago (via the-book-diaries)