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tellherium

“Everything has changed and yet, I am more me than I’ve ever been.”

— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You (via wordsnquotes)

dirtygoodgrief-deactivated20260

And I am so in love with you ❤️

quotemadness

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald,

uselessatheart

That was part of being a girl–you were resigned to whatever feedback you’d get. If you got mad, you were crazy, and if you didn’t react, you were a bitch. The only thing you could do was smile from the corner they’d backed you into. Implicate yourself in the joke even if the joke was always on you.

Emma Cline, The Girls (via uselessatheart)

uselessatheart

Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.

Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down (via uselessatheart)

theliteraryjournals

For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there’s nothing else. It’s here, and you’d better decide to enjoy it or you’re going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.

Lev Grossman, The Magicians (via theliteraryjournals)

theliteraryjournals

I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.

Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin (via theliteraryjournals)

thelovejournals

Sometimes people stop loving you. And that’s the kind of darkness that never gets fixed, no matter how many moons rise again…

Lauren Oliver, Vanishing Girls (via wordsnquotes)

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thebookishdragon

It’s no use moping about our lost childhood, and becoming intoxicated by the sickly potency of of our own nostalgia; we have to grow up. We have to leave the unself-conscious grace of childhood behind and go in search of another quality altogether, the quality of wisdom. And that involves engaging with every kind of human experience, making compromises, getting our hands dirty, suffering, toiling, learning. Innocence is not wise; wisdom cannot be innocent.

Philip Pullman, Daemon Voices (via thebookishdragon)

quotemadness

If you meet somebody and your heart pounds, your hands shake, your knees go weak, that’s not the one. When you meet your ‘soul mate’ you’ll feel calm. No anxiety, no agitation.

Monica Drake (via quotemadness)