Tea Cups and Shattered Hearts

Hi, I am Darla. I am simply a slightly obsessed scholar with an addiction to quotes and emotion.

[perfectfeelings]

“We all need a friend who’ll sit with us in silence when words won’t work.”

— darencolbert

[perfeqt]

“Be gentle with yourself, you’re doing the best you can.”

— Unknown

[thespilledquotes]

“You can never really go back to the same waters. Not only are you no longer the same, but neither are the waters you left. The current has changed. The elements of nature have affected the stream. When you return, although it appears the same, it really is a different river and you are a different person. Therefore, you cannot cross the same river twice.”

— Alice Walker

[thespilledquotes]

“Let everything happen to you: Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Go to the Limits of Your Longing

[thehopefulquotes]

“You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.”

— John Green

[quotefeeling]

“If you want to be free, all you have to do is let go.”

— Terry Hayes, I Am Pilgrim

[feral-ballad]

Katherine Larson, from Radial Symmetry; “Gardens in Tunisia”

[Text ID: “There are days that walk through me / and I cannot hold them.”]

[weltenwellen]

Scherezade Siobhan, from “Code“

[sunsbleeding]

[serratedpens]

Melissa Febos, Abandon Me

[quotefeeling]

“And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.”

— Jane Austen

[thoughtkick]

“Being brave doesn’t mean you aren’t scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.”

— Neil Gaiman

[quotemadness]

“No one will understand you. It is not, ultimately, that important. What is important is that you understand you.”

— Matt Haig

[writings-of-the-cosmos]

Oh, It's a shame to believe in the first love! We were warned of the damage it may causes, but like a sheep to the slaughter we all stand in line.

[litaratura]

Michael Cunningham, The Hours

[writings-of-the-cosmos]

— We will always love more that which is forbidden.

[thoughtkick]

“Don’t ever put your happiness in someone else’s hands. They’ll drop it. They’ll drop it everytime.”

— One For Sorrow, C.Barzak