Unpathed Waters...

I'm 18, and I've got my whole life ahead of me. I'm ready to start living it.

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“Perhaps it’s true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house—the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture—must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.” - Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

via @quotespile

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“I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?”

— Laurie Halse Anderson (via quotemadness)

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“Yet, I didn’t understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and chaste of heart, whose souls have been coarsely and impudently invaded; and who, until the last moment, refuse to yield out of pride and are afraid to express their own feelings to you.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via quotemadness)

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“There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.” - Franz Kafka, Letters To Felice (via the-book-diaries)

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“I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.”

— Lewis Carroll (via quotemadness)

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“I have always, essentially, been waiting. Waiting to become something else, waiting to be that person I always thought I was on the verge of becoming, waiting for that life I thought I would have. In my head, I was always one step away.” - Shauna Niequist, Cold Tangerines (via the-book-diaries)

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via @aseaofquotes

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“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”

— Charlotte Brontë (via quotemadness)

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“I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myself.” - Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea (via the-book-diaries)

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“I wish that photographs were physical spaces, like tunnels; that you could crawl inside them and go back.” - Lauren Oliver, Vanishing Girls (via the-book-diaries)

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“People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.”

— Kurt Vonnegut (via quotemadness)

[rhsin]

but she also smiled when she was miserable and even though she was strong. deep down she was tired of pretending to be okay.

r.h. Sin