novel about silence

[quotemadness]

“You cannot make someone understand a message they are not ready to receive.”

— Unknown

[anthropologyofwater-deactivated]

when benjamin alire sáenz wrote “you’ve always seen me. and i think that’s all that anyone wants… seeing someone. really seeing someone. that’s love.”

[light-and-salt]

“But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.”

— Albert Camus, from The Fall

[your-last-cigarettee]

“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter—they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.” — Sylvia Plath

[your-last-cigarettee]

“Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.” — Carl Jung

[your-last-cigarettee]

“And you tried to change, didn’t you? Closed your mouth more. Tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake… You can’t make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that. And if he wants to leave, then let him leave. You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.” —Warsan Shire, For Women Who Are Difficult To Love

[your-last-cigarettee]

“I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.”

— Neil Gaiman, The Sandman.

[your-last-cigarettee]

“I didn’t know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddamit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.”

— Jack Kerouac, On the Road

[noorshirazie]

“Apologize to yourself for all the times you’ve sold yourself short, or settled for something, or cheated your self-worth. Apologize, mean it, and ensure that you never have to offer an apology for the same reason ever again.”

— Noor Shirazie

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Bruno Barbey. China. Guangxi province. 1980.

[sliplead]

[your-last-cigarettee]

Eyes are distracting. You see too much. You don’t see enough.

[coltre]

“We have all hurt someone tremendously, whether by intent or accident. we have all loved someone tremendously, whether by intent or accident. it is an intrinsic human trait, and a deep responsibility, i think, to be an organ and a blade. but, learning to forgive ourselves and others because we have not chosen wisely is what makes us most human. we make horrible mistakes. it’s how we learn. we breathe love. it’s how we learn. and it is inevitable.”

— Nayyirah Waheed (via justenjoui)

[coltre]

“Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven’t loved enough.”

— Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love (via thelovejournals)

[your-last-cigarettee]

“It’s easy to be a naive idealist. It’s easy to be a cynical realist. It’s quite another thing to have no illusions and still hold the inner flame.” — Marie-Louise von Franz

[unrar]

[ehais]

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