Patient, fine, balanced, kind.

[alonesomes]

“Finally, in a low whisper, he said, ‘I think I might be a terrible person.’ For a split second I believed him - I thought he was about to confess a crime, maybe a murder. Then I realized that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before asking someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing.”

— Miranda July, The First Bad Man   (via lrpsi)

[alonesomes]

“Finally, in a low whisper, he said, ‘I think I might be a terrible person.’ For a split second I believed him - I thought he was about to confess a crime, maybe a murder. Then I realized that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before asking someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing.”

— Miranda July, The First Bad Man   (via lrpsi)

[alonesomes]

“She didn’t know whether this was love or not but she knew with all her heart and soul that she wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, On Your Own (via fitzgeraldquotes)

[alonesomes]

“I like the feel of you. I like the noises you make. I love your faults. I love your voice. I love your truth. The world bores me to death (or rather my world does) – it bores me and irritates me when I’m away from you.”

— H.G. Wells, from a letter to Rebecca West written c. April 1913 (via violentwavesofemotion)

[alonesomes]

“I tell too many stories at once. This, too, is a violence. But I want to tell you everything, I want you to love me for it, and I want you to forgive me after I say everything you asked me not to say.”

— James Allen Hall, from I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well (via lifeinpoetry)

[thelovejournals]

“It is three at night. I have something to say. You are so valuable. You shine out. You are a magic star. You are a body of blood made beautiful. How I admire, sit back and adore you. How thirsty I am for that. How you feed me.”

— Anne Sexton, Letter to Lois Ames, 11 Jan. 1969

[luthienne]

Camille Rankine, “Emergency Management”

[perrfectly]

“You don’t need another human being to make your life complete, but let’s be honest. Having your wounds kissed by someone who doesn’t see them as disasters in your soul, but cracks to put their love into, is the most calming thing in this world.”

— Emery Allen  (via perrfectly)

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“I’ve been trying to read but all that’s available are recently written fiction novels and they have the same types of plots. Romance. I’m the last person who would be against romance, but baby they all sound so shallow and weak. I’d like to write our story.”

— Mike Royko, from love letter to Carol Duckman, 24 September 1954; Royko in Love by David and MIke Royko (University of Chicago Press, 2010)

[noorshirazie]

“She dances like she has never been scorched. May her fire always be free.”

— Noor Shirazie

[antigonick]

“—she will be near him and want nothing else, she will let him eat her, she will never let him go. She will never stop following.”

— Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf

[writingsforwinter]

“The problem with memory was that it told us whatever we wanted to hear. It had no shape of its own.”

— Veronica Hassell (via memoryslandscape)

[hype]

[quotemadness]

“When they ask you what your favorite moment is, you will say her. You will always say her.”

— Caitlyn Siehl

[the-pearlearring]

Instagram: ettrumtill, love it✨🌻

[aliciasilvastuff]

By fordeabbey

[noorshirazie]

“You offer help with your hand on the doorknob and suitcases packed. Why bother to feign compassion when your mind has found it elsewhere? Do not look at me with interest you have already set aside for someone else.”

— Noor Shirazie