linguaphile

“warmth, perfume, music, soft lights, coffee and books.“ | victoria, 27, germany

[metamorphesque]

— James Baldwin, They Can’t Turn Back

[paper-wounds]

[quotefeeling]

“The devil doesn’t come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you’ve ever wished for.”

— Tucker Max

[surqrised]

“We all eat lies when our hearts are hungry.”

— Unknown

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.”

— Haruki Murakami, from Kafka on the Shore (Alfred A. Knopf, 2005)

[lamignonette]

[resqectable]

“And love is when someone who even knows your scars, stays to kiss them.”

— Benjamin Griss

[quotefeeling]

“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”

— Bell Hooks

[quotefeeling]

“If you have been brutally broken, but still have the courage to be gentle to others then you deserve a love deeper than the ocean itself.”

— Nikita Gill

[mournfulroses]

Jane Hirshfield, from a poem titled "Today, When I Could Do Nothing," featured in The Asking: New and Selected Poems

[thoughtkick]

“The moment you feel like you have to prove your worth to someone is the moment you absolutely and utterly have to walk away.”

— Alyssia Harris

[thoughtkick]

“Feeling alone has nothing to do with how many people there are around you.”

— Unknown

[thoughtkick]

“I hope you find someone who knows how to love you when you are sad.”

— Nikita Gill

[perriaeyjeve]

be known for your kindness

[perriaeyjeve]

[annori]

Mark Haber, from Saint Sebastian’s Abyss (2022)

[quotefeeling]

“If you knew how hard it was, and how long it took, to rebuild my little universe of peace and happiness then you would understand why I’m so picky about who I allow in my life.”

— Weird People