"I don't know if I'm extremely sensitive or life is unbearable."

- Vincent Van Gogh

"In a few years, this little girl will be a woman who will make small demands on life, who will never burden others, who will never let on that she too had sorrows, disappointments, dreams that have been ridiculed. A woman who will be like a rock in a riverbed, enduring without complaint, her grace not sullied but shaped by the turbulence that washes over her."

- A Thousand Splendid Suns

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“I can't abandon the person I used to be so 1 carry her”

"Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience."

- John Steinbeck, East of Eden

"I fall asleep whispering "I am safer alone I am safer alone I am safer alone I am safer alone" …Forgive me, memory is a rope around the neck."

- Clementine von Radics

"I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself."

-Franz Kafka

She sounded like she was about to cry. But then I heard her take a breath. Then she changed the subject. Everyone did that. When something hurt, well, we just changed the subject.

-Benjamin Alire

When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it. Oh, when you used to sing it to sleep.

Caitlyn Siehl, Start Here

If you call me and say 'Will you...' my answer is 'Yes', before your sentence is out. I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.

- Jeanette Winterson

In the end, we all just want someone who chooses us... over everyone else under any circumstances

That's the thing about people who haven't been loved much..They think about every kind gesture, a slightest touch of fingers, kind smiles, random acts of love, intimacy in every small thing done. They find that love wherever they can cause it was never given to them freely. They don't ask for love, they search for it everywhere.

"He felt warm and familiar. He felt solid and safe. I wanted to cling to his shirt, bury my face into the warm curve of his neck, and never let go."

- Crescendo

And he is — Oh, well! He is just him-self, and I miss him, and miss him, and miss him. The whole world seems empty and aching. I hate the moonlight because it's beautiful and he is n't here to see it with me. But maybe you've loved somebody, too, and you know? If you have, I don't need to explain; if you have n't, I can't explain.

I always wondered what love is like and believed it to be like in the movies. Dancing on romantic songs, Kissing in the rain, loving each other forever and living “Happily ever after” but in reality, its forgetting about the movie and kissing between the commercials. Its about feeding each other popcorn throughout. Its in holding hands and smiling at each other across the room. Its in arguing but knowing that we’d always figure it out and that we can create our Happily ever after.

"I broke down trying to live up to other people's standards. I was troubled because I thought everyone was running ahead while I was the only one falling behind. So for now, I'm trying to become friends with myself rather than others."