Because There's Us...

There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.

[wordsnquotes]

I like how sleeping next to someone means more than sex sometimes, the body’s way of saying ‘I trust you to be by my side at my most vulnerable time,’ you have no defenses when you are asleep, you tell no lies.

Eric Shaw (via wordsnquotes)

[thelovejournals]

I want to be the last person who ever kisses you… That sounds bad, like a death threat or something. What I’m trying to say is, you’re it. This is it for me.

Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park (via thelovejournals)

[thelovejournals]

Talking about someone who makes you happy actually makes you happy.

Elizabeth Scott, Bloom (via thelovejournals)

[wordsnquotes]

In October any wonderful unexpected thing might be possible.

Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond (via wordsnquotes)

[thelovejournals]

We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don’t even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It’s time to put an end to this. It’s time for us to let ourselves be loved.

C. JoyBell C. (via thelovejournals)

[thelovejournals]

When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.

Sean O’Casey, Three More Plays: The Silver Tassie, Purple Dust, Red Roses For Me (via thelovejournals)

[poems-and-words]

[wnq-writers]

It’s hard not to fall in love with someone when they see the mixed up parts of your Soul. When they understand the darkest and dustiest corners of your mind. When it's four a.m. and they call because they know you’re not asleep.

everlasting-beauty-within (via wnq-writers)

[theliteraryjournals]

When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings

Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love (via theliteraryjournals)

[books-n-quotes]

One day you will kiss a man you can’t breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.

Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever

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[books-n-quotes]

It’s fun to think of the what-if. Scary, but fun. It’s like, I thought this door was closed before, but here it is open just the tiniest crack. What if?

Jenny Han, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (via books-n-quotes)

[wnq-writers]

she spoke from a place of not yet healed, not entirely broken.

livedef (via wnq-writers)

[wnq-anonymous]

The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us but those who win battles we know nothing about.

Anonymous  (via wnq-anonymous)

[books-n-quotes]

Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like the ebb and flow of tides. No one can do anything to change them. When it is time to wait, you must wait.

Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

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[thelovejournals]

However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.

Aidan Chambers, Dying to Know You  (via thelovejournals)

[wordsnquotes]

The mind is so much more interesting than the body.

Isabel Allende, El cuaderno de Maya

original: “La mente es mucho más interesante que el cuerpo.”

(via wordsnquotes)

[becausetheresus]

Everybody comes to a point in their life when they want to quit, but it's what you do at that moment that determines who you are.