an introverts dream

[ojibwa]

[lovesickbrat]

[serpentwife-deactivated20200820]

the gangs all here

[quotemadness]

“I think we all just want someone who can see the beauty we can’t see in ourselves. Not someone that romanticizes the mess and calls it beautiful, but someone that walks boldly into our brokenness, sees us spread-eagle in the middle of the wreckage and says that we’re worth salvaging.”

— Maxwell Diawuoh

[quotemadness]

“We are all just waiting for someone to notice —notice our pain, notice our scars, notice our fear, notice our joy, notice our triumphs, notice our courage. And the one who notices is a rare and beautiful gift.”

— Rachel Macy Stafford

[quotemadness]

“I feel myself shutting down, closing off, like I should tell people, ‘No, we don’t use this heart anymore. It’s too fragile.’”

— Courtney C. Stevens

[justapeiceofshit]

[thebookquotes]

I believe that suffering is part of the narrative, and that nothing really good gets built when everything's easy. I believe that loss and emptiness and confusion often give way to new fullness and wisdom.

— Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way

[heartshop]

James Tate, Selected Poems

[quotemadness]

“I didn’t know what to call it, what was happening between us, but I liked it. It felt silly and fragile and good.”

— Ransom Riggs

[sleepin]

[depresseddisneyprincess]

[timbllr]

[debb1efaith]

ah yes depression

[quotemadness]

“Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.”

— Lemony Snicket (via quotemadness)

[quotemadness]

“I love the grey area between right and wrong.”

— Dan Brown (via quotemadness)

[quotemadness]

“Because survival is insufficient.”

— Emily St. John Mandel (via quotemadness)