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@danchpro666
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“You must never feel badly about making mistakes… As long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.”
— Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth (via books-n-quotes)
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“I used books the way some people use alcohol, to obliterate the noise of the outside world.”
— Graham Joyce
i want coffee runs at midnight
and random texts at 3 pm
about dumb things that
go through your head during the day.
i want horror movies while you
cover your eyes and recoil behind my shoulders
but insist that you weren’t that scared
when i call you out on it.
i want getting lost in a foreign city
and our phones are out of battery
and all we have is each other
and the beautiful alien scenery
as we try to find our way back.
i want petty fights about mundane things
and screaming at each other
and slamming of doors
but i become yellow
when you are red
brightening up your dark days
and you love me all the same.
i want awkward first times
while our mixed anxiety
and hesitation
strangles us up in a corner
but a brief eye contact
puts both our demons at ease
and the world feels much lighter.
i want spending hours in museums
trying to find the perfect artefact
that we can make a meme out of
and the security guard gives us a warning stare
as we run through greek sculptures
amongst the gods and the semi-humans
all the greatest tragedies and love sonnets in one room.
then there is you
then there is me
trying to find a middle between
two extremes.
- i want all the good, the bad, and the ugly. // heavyemptyheart
thunderpopcola:
This is how you lose her.
You lose her when you forget to remember the little things that mean the world to her: the sincerity in a stranger’s voice during a trip to the grocery, the delight of finding something lost or forgotten like a sticker from when she was five, the selflessness of a child giving a part of his meal to another, the scent of new books in the store, the surprise short but honest notes she tucks in her journal and others you could only see if you look closely.
You must remember when she forgets.
You lose her when you don’t notice that she notices everything about you: your use of the proper punctuation that tells her continuation rather than finality, your silence when you’re about to ask a question but you think anything you’re about to say to her would be silly, your mindless humming when it is too quiet, your handwriting when you sign your name in blank sheets of paper, your muted laughter when you are trying to be polite, and more and more of what you are, which you don’t even know about yourself, because she pays attention.
She remembers when you forget.
You lose her for every second you make her feel less and less of the beauty that she is. When you make her feel that she is replaceable. She wants to feel cherished. When you make her feel that you are fleeting. She wants you to stay. When you make her feel inadequate. She wants to know that she is enough and she does not need to change for you, nor for anyone else because she is she and she is beautiful, kind and good.
You must learn her.
You must know the reason why she is silent. You must trace her weakest spots. You must write to her. You must remind her that you are there. You must know how long it takes for her to give up. You must be there to hold her when she is about to.
You must love her because many have tried and failed. And she wants to know that she is worthy to be loved, that she is worthy to be kept.
And, this is how you keep her.