Only words will save me.

I have always turned to books when I needed advice and they never failed me. Now I feel like I should share with the world these healing words and maybe this will help someone in their hardships.

[thelovejournals]

I think perhaps love comes from finding someone you feel utterly comfortable with, someone who makes you comfortable with yourself. It’s like finding yourself, or maybe it’s like finding the other part of yourself.

Candice Proctor, Whispers of Heaven (via thelovejournals)

[onlywordswillsaveme]

[wordsnquotes]

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world would do this, it would change the Earth.

William Faulkner (via wordsnquotes)

[onlywordswillsaveme]

The worst part is the waiting and not being able to do anything. It drives you crazy and does you in.

Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades: A Novel of Germany Between the Wars

[onlywordswillsaveme]

I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all reading is such a solitary, internalizing act that it appears to represent a disengagement from day-to-day life. But reading, and particularly the reading of fiction, encourages us to view the world in new and challenging ways...It allows us to inhabit the consciousness of another which is a precursor to empathy, and empathy is, for me, one of the marks of a decent human being.

John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things

[onlywordswillsaveme]

[wordsnquotes]

No matter how sure you are that a friend will be there for you, it’s the greatest feeling when the time comes and there they are.

Robert Brault (via wordsnquotes)

[onlywordswillsaveme]

It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world. It's despair that perfectly normal young men can be made vicious and evil because they've won a lot of money. And then do what you've done to me.

John Fowles, The Collector

[wordsnquotes]

Everybody has a chapter they don’t read out loud.

Unknown (via wordsnquotes)

[onlywordswillsaveme]

[fangirltojaarch-blog]

[onlywordswillsaveme]

Every reader’s heaven^^

[onlywordswillsaveme]

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

[onlywordswillsaveme]

We are speaking of love. A leaf, a handful of seed - begin with these, learn a little what it is to love. First a leaf, a fall of rain, then someone to receive what a leaf has taught you, what a fall of rain has ripened. No easy process, understand; it could take a lifetime, it has mine, and still I've never mastered it - I only know how true it is; that love is a chain of love, as nature is a chain of life.

Truman Capote, The Grass Harp

[onlywordswillsaveme]

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

[onlywordswillsaveme]

@WeHeartIt http://weheartit.com/entry/106185662/via/DonughtsLoveer

[wordsnquotes]

I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we’re not perfect and live accordingly.

Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man (via wordsnquotes)

[wordsnquotes]

Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.

Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness (via wordsnquotes)