The wind that blew my heart away

"I’ve come to the conclusion that if having things turn out the way you wanted them to is a measure of a successful life, then some would say I’m a failure. The important thing is not to be bitter over life’s disappointments. Learn to let go of the past. And recognize that every day won’t be sunny, and when you find yourself lost in the darkness and despair, remember it’s only in the black of night you see the stars. And those stars will lead you back home. So don’t be afraid to make mistakes, to stumble and fall, cause most of the time, the greatest rewards come from doing the things that scare you the most. Maybe you’ll get everything you wish for. Maybe you’ll get more than you ever could have imagined. Who knows where life will take you. The road is long and in the end, the journey is the destination. "--> Whitey Durham

[elfspectations]

“Maybe he didn’t write her poems or serenade her with songs or come home with expensive gifts. But no other boy had gone the wrong way on the train for hours every day just because he liked sitting next to her while she spoke.”

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

[weltenwellen]

We always think there’s enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding on to words like ‘if’.

Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove (via weltenwellen)

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“The thing about memories was, you never could control when they came up again.”

— Madeleine Roux, Asylum

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I think of how it felt to lose him, slow and painful and confusing, and how it felt to wonder if I’d ever really had him at all.

Katie Cotugno, How to Love (via simply-quotes)

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I miss parts of it. I don’t miss the actual place. That’s never as good as you remember it.

Ashley Poston, Geekerella (via simply-quotes)

[clevercloudpoetry]

Three times Gendry called her M’lady and the one time he called her Arya

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“There’s an old saying that if everyone threw their problems in a pile, and you saw what they all were, you’d go racing back to take your own.”

— Helen Hardt, Possession

[secretlywanderlust]

“Isn’t it terribly ironic: finding yourself homesick for the place you ran from?”

-Excerpt from a book I’ll never write, 102

“The runners”

[secretlywanderlust]

“The worst part of being in an emotional drought is not feeling numb, it’s feeling the brink of so many things, knowing you could feel so much but not being able to. The feelings are present, but it’s like they’re locked up inside tiny boxes, only to be opened by people you have yet to meet or that you haven’t been around in a while. You end up craving those people, even the ones you don’t know yet, because they hold the keys to unlock the boxes. So I guess what I’m trying to say is, the longing is worse than the nothingness.”

— Excerpt from a book I’ll never write, 68 “The Droughts”

[secretlywanderlust]

“You can’t make

a puzzle piece fit

if it wasn’t made to.”

-Excerpt from a book I’ll never write, 92

“Picture this”

[stream]

[go-brook-yourself]

Dorian only held her tighter, and let Manon lean on him for as long as she needed, Abraxos staring toward that blasted bit of earth on the plain, toward the mate who would never return, while the city below celebrated

Kingdom of Ash

[go-brook-yourself]

Who’d win in a fight.. Cassian or Lorcan?

[wylansvaneck]

little red bird… don’t go

[modernbookfae]

“To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered.”

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I can’t hate the boy I have always loved, but I can’t continue to love him the way I always have.

Leigh Ann Lunsford, Brisé (via simply-quotes)

[go-brook-yourself]

"Now, I'm not going to deny that I was aware of your beauty. But the point is, this has nothing to do with your beauty. As I got to know you, I began to realise that beauty was the least of your qualities. I became fascinated by your goodness. I was drawn in by it. I didn't understand what was happening to me. And it was only when I began to feel actual, physical pain every time you left the room that it finally dawned on me: I was in love, for the first time in my life. I knew it was hopeless, but that didn't matter to me. And it's not that I want to have you. All I want is to deserve you. Tell me what to do. Show me how to behave. I'll do anything you say."