assortments of data

A collection of bits and pieces from a wide world

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...throw roses into the abyss and say: ‘here is my thanks to the monster who didn’t succeed in swallowing me alive.

Friedrich Nietzsche

[wordsnquotes]

“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  (via thelovejournals)

[wordsnquotes]

“She hadn’t learned to control her Hopes yet.”

— Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things  (via theliteraryjournals)

[quotemadness]

“Something was and wasn’t there between us, something went on and went away.”

— Wislawa Szymborska

[quotemadness]

“I knew that what was left of me would always love you, but never in quite the same way.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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I want someone to love me as much as I hate myself.

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Src: Artidote

“1. Do not hate them for it. They are on a journey too.

2. Understand that sometimes you will be a bandage caressing a temporary wound or you will be a pinnacle of permanency rooted deeply in their heart. Accept that you do this to people too.

3. Do not step on your feet trying to find a rhythm you are not meant to follow.

4. Do not let it harden you: continue to nurture, continue to love.

5. People use words as anchors to latch onto bits of you and when they leave remind yourself that the sea never bled itself dry because a ship left it.

6. Write the nastiest letter and burn it.

7. Yes, they may have illuminated pieces of you that you were unaware existed. But now you do and they are not the last person to remind you.

8. Dizzy yourself with everything you love, like dancing in the greenhouse to horrid pop songs or reading Haruki Murakami.

9. Set all that anger ablaze, you are wasting your time sifting through it.

10. Internalize the fact that you were still breathing before you met them.

11. Forgive them.”

—herscience

artwork by Daniel Segrove

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“She wasn’t happy, but then she wasn’t unhappy. She wasn’t anything. But I don’t believe anyone is a nothing. There has to be something inside, if only to keep the skin from collapsing.”

— John Steinbeck

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Let there be spaces in your togetherness,

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Love one another but make not a bond of love:

Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup.

Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.

Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,

Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping.

For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.

And stand together, yet not too near together:

For the pillars of the temple stand apart,

And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.

Khalil Gibran

[wordsnquotes]

“To whoever loves me next, I’m sorry if I’m afraid of you or if days of flirting turn to radio silence, without warning. I’m sorry if I make you say the words over and over and over until I believe them. (I’m sorry if I don’t believe them.) I will probably spend more time worrying about losing you than I spend trying to keep you. Trouble is, every single time I’ve ever thought something was too good to be true– I’ve been right. Understand, I will know how to be vulnerable with you, but I won’t know how not to regret it. And I have no idea how deep we’ll be into this relationship before I admit I’ve never done this before. Not really. Not in any way that counts. Before I admit that I know how to put my body inside someone else’s but not how to make it beautiful. I probably won’t be easy to love. Too many people loved me badly, I’m not sure I know how to do it right.”

— Ashe Vernon

[books-n-quotes]

“You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.”

— Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran

[quotemadness]

It takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.

Albert Camus (via quotemadness)

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[wnq-writers]

I’ve always preferred winter over summer. The cold, bristle air, The flush in my cheeks, The numbness in my fingers, They remind me of you. And although I may never see you again, Sometimes, during those small moments, I feel at peace.

William Babin (via wordsnquotes)

[wnq-writers]

And we will talk of love like we know of it

Pranita Rimal // “unsent love letters” (via wordsnquotes)

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