keep your eyes open

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[wordsnquotes]

Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.

Anna Quindlen, Every Last One (via wordsnquotes)

[breakup]

[perrfectly]

[wordsnquotes]

My soul and yours are the same, You appear in me, I in you, We hide in each other.

Rumi (via wordsnquotes)

[mitten]

[hello--gracie]

“Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it — but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.” - Jackie Kennedy

[red-lipstick]

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

To feel harshly tender, To be equal to a winter day, To reduce myself to nothing, that I might call into being not my shadow, but light, direct, not blocked by me.

Bella Akhmadulina, tr. by Barbara Einzig, from “Goodbye,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[mitten]

[jeliyfish]

[sharkchunks]

[mitten]

[serious]

[kevc]

[wordsnquotes]

For everything that’s lovely is but a brief, dreamy, kind of delight.

William Butler Yeats, In The Seven Woods (1904)

[wordsnquotes]

I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.

Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha (via wordsnquotes)

[you-monsters-we-call-people]