I find comfort in knowing that people who I’ve cut out of my life are left with this version of me that simply doesn’t exist anymore. The memory and image of me that they have isnt who I am, and I’m happy that it’s that way. I’ve changed and grown and they wont ever get the chance to know the better version of myself that I’ve become during their absence.

“If you had really loved something, wouldn’t a little bit of it always linger?”

— Susan Orlean, from The Orchid Thief (Random House, 1998)

i think its incredibly sexy of me to announce every thought i have to hundreds of strangers online

i've never felt young lol i was 14 feeling like a three times divorced woman

I find myself getting less and less ambitious the older I get.

When I was graduating high school I wanted to do great things and be super famous and change the world.  Now I just want to hang out and not bother anybody.

Sometimes our unhealed wounds make us believe that we are worthless, that we don’t deserve love and happiness, that we don’t have the right to have a specific person in our lives; they are still so raw so we push people away who are just trying to help.

Believe me when I say, no matter how much hurt you are, or how much your heart is wounded, you are still you, you are still the same person who is very much worthy of love and warmth. You deserve to heal from the pain which has snatched away your sense of reality.

Please don’t be hard on your innocent heart. It just needs time. Don’t deprive it of comfort. Listen to it.

— Syeda Zehra Fatima

“Tell me what you think about when you can’t fall asleep at night.”

— Unknown

I want to look like a dreamy renaissance painting everyday

That myth about how the face you wear in this life is the face of the person you loved most in your last life. What a beautiful concept.

To be remade in the image of your love. To love someone so much you become them.

I can love the girl staring back in the mirror much more easily, knowing that I did it once before. And that I loved her so fiercely I became her.

i aspire to be one of those people who are known for always carrying a book around, having good taste in music and treating people nicely.

“Those letters seemed so wonderfully tragic to me. Each one a message he would never get. A note in a bottle, bobbing on the ocean. Lost.”

— Bryn Greenwood; All The Ugly And Wonderful Things

“What is in our hearts is real whether we name it or let it exist only in darkness or silence.”

— Beth Revis

“The things I find most beautiful about a person are almost never physical.”

— Mark Patterson

“I am afraid of this man, as if in him I had to face all the realities which terrify me. His sensual being affects me. His ferocity, enveloped in tenderness, his sudden seriousness, the heavy, rich mind. I am a bit hypnotized.”

— Anaïs Nin

“He never loved you, but he loved the reflection of the man he saw in your eyes.”

— Najwa Zebian; The Nectar Of Pain.

Nikki Giovanni, from “Adulthood II”