[xmariu]

There is no better distraction in this world than losing oneself in books for a while.

— Magnus Bane, Chain of Gold (The Last Hours, #1) by Cassandra Clare.

[vexheart]

[b-gii]

Choose who chooses you

[vexheart]

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Marie Howe, Magdalene: “Walking Home”

[minimalistquotes]

Don't ever let someone make you feel guilty because they are suffering the consequences of their own actions.

[babip88]

So true

[mournfulroses]

Anne Michaels, from Skin Divers: Poems; "Ice House," originally published in 1999

[thoughtkick]

“I don’t want to be a sweetheart. I want to be the fucking love of your life.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

[mournfulroses]

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter featured in "Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to his Family & Friends,"

[mournfulroses]

Megan Nolan, from her novel titled "Acts of Desperation," originally published in March 2021

[woundsoflove]

I want to be with you. It's as simple and as complicated as that. - Charles Bukowski

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse; Fragments [translated by Richard Howard]

[thepersonalquotes]

“A house doesn’t become a home until love moves in.”

— Faraaz Kazi

[caruccio]

You know how to love someone, but you don't know how to believe that someone loves you, and that is your tragedy.

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— unknown

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Lina A.

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Kait Rokowski, from "The Civil Guillotine" in So Much For the Mercy Kill

[quotefeeling]

“I don’t want you to save me. I want you to stand by my side as I save myself.”

— Unknown

[thereadmind]