I'M NOT THE GIRL YOU THINK I AM.

[thegirlthatcriesacademia]

I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing with. I maintained a set distance, carefully monitoring the person's attitude so that they wouldn't get any closer. I didn't easily swallow what other people told me. My only passions were books and music.

— Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

[notebookofquotes]

“My god, my God, whose performance am I watching? How many people am I? Who am I? What is this space between myself and myself?”

— Fernando Pessoa

[butterfliesrising]

be gentle with the way you’re learning to hold your own heart

- butterflies rising

[ardent-reflections]

Darling, the moon is still the moon in all of its phases.

Isra Al-Thibeh

[samxcamargo]

Book: Night Drives 💖

[lettersbycandlelight]

[samxcamargo]

You don’t have to be healed to deserve the good things in your life.

-Josue Camargo

[timberfigure]

Eventually, your roots grew into my spine. They found water and they became strong. I became your lifeblood and I hadn't asked for that. You put me here. You put me beneath you and as your source.

[mxxnlightsblog]

"At times, my life seems to be nothing but a series of remorse, of wrong choices, of irreversible mistakes."

- Paul Auster

[zaaima]

Forgive me if I don’t talk much at times. It’s loud enough in my head.

Unknown

[linkinmoon]

Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

[imakeartwheniwanttodie]

[mermaidinthedeepocean]

[gedankentumult]

“Ich möchte so viel loswerden, aber kein Wort sagen.”

—

[geryone]

Holy Wild, Gwen Benaway

[brok3np4radise-deactivated20250]

Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.

C.S. Lewis

[feral-ballad]

Blythe Baird, from If My Body Could Speak; “Concerns from a hot-boxed jeep”

[Text ID: “How do I stop / carrying everything / that had ever / happened to me?”]