boys & bands & bad bitches i aspire to be
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“I used to dislike being sensitive. I thought it made me weak. But take away that single trait, and you take away the very essence of who I am. You take away my conscience, my ability to empathize, my intuition, my creativity, my deep appreciation for the little things, my vivid inner life, my deep awareness of others’ pain, and my passion for it all.”
— Unknown
— Jonathan Safran Foer
— Clementine Von Radics, from In A Dream You Saw A Way To Survive; "The Fear" (via lunamonchtuna)
Almost. It’s a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. not yet. Soon, maybe.
Joan Bauer / Almost Home
the archive of almosts.
“Stop trying to change someone who doesn’t want to change. Stop giving chances to someone who abuses your forgiveness. Stop running back to the place where your heart ran from. Stop trusting their words and ignoring their actions. Stop breaking your own heart.”
— Unknown
Simone de Beauvoir, from a diary entry featured in Diary of a Philosophy Student
"A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you."
Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns
Martha Gellhorn, from a letter to David Gurewitsch featured in The Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn
I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want so many things? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.
- Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
— virginia woolf , carlyle's house and other sketches (via letsbelonelytogetherr)
— Anaïs Nin
— Alexandra Vasiliu
“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”
— Dalai Lama
— Kriti G.
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
Zora Neale Hurston / Their Eyes Were Watching God
songs that make you insanely depressed but in a life affirming way
- Mandeq Ahmed, 'Ocean of Tears'
new beginnings are scary but they're necessary new beginnings are scary but they're necessary new beginnings are scary but they're necessary new beginnings are scary but they're necessary
repeating mistakes that I know I shouldn’t
love it
Marcus Lopez Arguello — Deadly Class
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