i learnt to swim as i was drowning

ruby, 21, recovering

[windflowerfairy]

by Emily Dickinson

[music-and-quotes]

“Don’t make the same mistake as me. Say goodbye and be gone…Be done and be free.”

— La Dispute, Edit Your Hometown

[purplebuddhaproject]

“You were scared, but you still got here; don’t forget that.”

— (via purplebuddhaquotes)

[between-the-silent-pages]

“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”

—

Franz Kafka (via goodreadss)

[bnmxfld]

[purplebuddhaproject]

“Oh what we could be if we stopped carrying the remains of who we were.”

— Tyler Knott Gregson (via purplebuddhaquotes)

[soracities]

“I come from very far within to the edge of my body to meet the sunrise.”

Etel Adnan, Paris, When It’s Naked

[books-n-quotes]

“You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (via books-n-quotes)

[marisatomay]

“Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.”

— Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows [JK Rowling]

[ohgod-awesome-posts]

U know when ur hairs greasy and it makes u feel so so so bad about urself. And ur entire life. Everything is awful bc my hair is greasy

[books-n-quotes]

“Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we’re the ones who securely tied the knot.”

— Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts (via books-n-quotes)

[books-n-quotes]

“What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then.”

— T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party (via books-n-quotes)

[books-n-quotes]

“You have so many layers, that you can peel away a few, and everyone’s so shocked or impressed that you’re baring your soul, while to you it’s nothing, because you know you’ve twenty more layers to go.”

— Craig Thompson, Carnet de Voyage (via books-n-quotes)

[books-n-quotes]

“You were hurt badly, and those scars will be with you for ever. I feel sorry for you, I really do. But think of it like this: it’s not too late to recover. You’re young, you’re tough. You’re adaptable. You can patch up your wounds, lift up your head and move on.”

— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via books-n-quotes)

[books-n-quotes]

“I am on fire with this thought, this need, this chance to escape.”

— Veronica Roth, The Transfer (via books-n-quotes)

[kaarchin]

When you start opening up to people

[books-n-quotes]

“Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.”

— Markus Zusak, I Am The Messenger (via books-n-quotes)