Miguel Hernández, tr. by Robert Bly, from The Selected Poems; "Eternal Darkness,"

— John Green, from The Fault in Our Stars

you ever feel like you were born with something rotten inside you and if people get close enough they’re gonna find out

in another universe we watched many more sunsets together

“I’m slowly learning that some people aren’t good for me, no matter how much I love them.”

— Unknown

“I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have.”

— Holly Black

“I will spend more time with myself in this lifetime than anyone else. Let me learn to be the kind of person I would like to have as a friend.”

— Courage to Change: One Day at a Time (Al-Anon.)

I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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

- Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

post-post clarity when you're looking at your post on the dash like who gives a fuck. delete

okay but saying “i wish i had known you sooner” — like the love in my heart is growing so big and fast for you that i wish i had the opportunity to have you way earlier by my side, because i want to love you longer than i can do now. my love for you reaches my past and makes a place for you.

I’m always soft for you, that’s the problem. You could come knocking on my door five years from now and I would open my arms wider and say ‘come here, it’s been too long, it felt like home with you.

Azra.T

“How wonderful it is to be silent with someone.”

Staying here, blaming them, and forever defining your life by what they did will only increase the pain. Worse, it will keep projecting out onto others. The more our pain consumes us, the more it will control us. And sadly, it’s those who least deserve to be hurt whom our unresolved pain will hurt the most.

Lysa TerKeurst, Forgiving What You Can’t Forget