I turn 22 today.
July 2010
“It’s unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn’t have to say this, but I like human beings who have suffered. They’re kinder.”
—Emma Thompson (via lovefox-) (via luxwillow) (via merricat) (via rosemarysbaby, -lovefox) (via th3bestidea) (via tothepersoninthebelljar)
“I’ll never understand my heart’s capacity to jump from one heartbreak to the next without so much of a second glance to reality. It’s my own form of suicide, in a way. So, here’s to the next thousand deaths.”
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(via 52hearts)
(via tothepersoninthebelljar)
“Yes, it’s a mistake. I know it’s a mistake but there are certain things in life where you know it’s a mistake but you don’t really know it’s a mistake because the only way to really know it’s a mistake is to make the mistake and look back and say yup, that was a mistake. So really, the bigger mistake would be to not make the mistake because then you’d go your whole life not really knowing if something’s a mistake or not.”
—How I Met Your Mother (via littlemiss)
“So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don’t, and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said that it’d be easy, they just promised it would be worth it. Eventually feels a lot better than actually.”
—Grey’s Anatomy (via runawaytrain)
“Nobody wants to admit to this but bad things will keep happening. Maybe that’s because it’s all a chain, and a long time ago someone did the first bad thing and that led someone also to do another bad thing, and so on You know, like that game where you whisper a sentence into someone’s ear, and that person whispers it to someone, and it all comes out wrong in the end. But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.”
—Jodi Picoult (via eletheowl)
“With fiction, there’s no reason why everything you write shouldn’t be amazing. Nobody’s stopping you from making up better stuff.”
—Wells Tower (via planetickets) (via presidents) (via themorninglight) (via arianesantos)
“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never think about anything as much as I think about you.”
—Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via instefanspants) (via ifeelitall) (via sharmander) (via rickahh) (via youralgebra) (via elephantsandlambs)
“I can’t tell you what it really is, I can only tell you what it feels like.”
—Love the Way You Lie by Eminem featuring Rihanna (via lyricallysomething)
“A writer never has a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.”
—Eugene Ionesco (via kendalllouise) (via libraryland)
“Don’t ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words the heart can speak.”
—The Shack, William P. Young (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes) (via dosesofsunshine) (via elephantsandlambs)
The tough thing about following your heart is what people forget to mention, that sometimes your heart takes you places you shouldn't be, places that are as scary as they are exciting and as dangerous as they are alluring, and sometimes your heart takes you to places that can never lead to a happy ending. And that's not even the difficult part. The difficult part is when you follow your heart, you leave normal, and you go into the unknown. And once you do, you can never go back.
(via daphneemarie)
“I dreamed of being a part of the stories — even terrifying ones, even horror stories — because at least the girls in stories were alive before they died.”
—The Rose And The Beast (via tothepersoninthebelljar)
“He said he believed in that thing about everyone having another half out there, like a twin, that you were supposed to find and that almost no one ever did.”
—The Rose And The Beast (via tothepersoninthebelljar)
Boys break your heart. Men pick up the pieces.
(via daphneemarie)
My writing becomes boring when I'm happy
Pain and heartache, you have to admit, make the best inspiration for any type of creative outlet. When I’m sad and hurting, words transcend normal letters and normal sound and invoke new intensity in feelings.
Maybe that’s why there are so many songs and books and movies about suffering; because grief brings tortured artists and writers and musicians the need to relieve the ache -
but nothing feels as good as being at peace with the world. And if my writing suffers for it, then so be it.
but nothing feels as good as being at peace with the world. And if my writing suffers for it, then so be it.
What I Would Tell My Younger Self →
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everyone, deep inside, is just as afraid as you are.
nothing will ever add up like you’d like it to in your head, but tragedies eventually pass and life does bloom again.
don’t ever give up on the people you love. put up with their difficult behavior because deep down, they mean more to you…
“There comes a point in your life when you realize that nothing will ever be the same, and you realize that from now on time will be divided into two parts — before this and after this.”
—(via poeticheartache : myownpersonalchees-its : dawnashley : katherineanneausten) (via blurthelines)
“Sometimes I think that we waste our words, we waste our moments and we don’t take the time to say the things that are in our hearts when we have the chance.”
—(via poeticheartache)
“I’d give anything, but I won’t give up on you. I’d say anything, but not goodbye.”
— “Words” by Train, Save Me SanFrancisco (via shesgotwhatittakes) (via tothepersoninthebelljar)
“Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness.”
—Chuck Palahniuk (via julie911) (via underdogvictorious) (via libraryland) (via allthatis)
“To start a new chapter sometimes we have to end the previous one with goodbye.”
—(via jpav333) (via tothepersoninthebelljar)
“It’s hard for decent people to stay angry at someone who has burst into tears, which is why it is often a good idea to burst into tears if a decent person is yelling at you.”
—Lemony Snicket (via poeticheartache)
“When I am old and I have silver hair, or white, I don’t know which one it’ll be. Some shade like that. I wanna live in Maine. I wanna have a house and make necklaces or something. And have alot of cats. It’s a whole fantasy for me. So at least I know where I’m gonna end up”
—Taylor Swift (via tswiftfan13)
The truth is, once you’re a cutter, you don’t stop. Try as you might there will always come a day where you’ll argue with a friend or lose your job and you’ll just think to yourself, ‘You know what? I just want to bleed’
the beautiful and the ordinary: IN the end I am left with the same question, the impossible question:... →
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IN the end I am left with the same question, the impossible question: What makes one woman, one packet of flesh and the being inside it, so drenched in value as to make a man leave a woman he loved, leave even his own daughters?
I don’t understand what love is, how its object is contained in a…
“I write everything what I live. So, you gotta give yourself a lot of time to live a lot of things to write a lot of things. And my only option is to write about what I’ve been through and what I’ve lived, so thankfully in the past two years I’ve experienced a lot of things that I’ve been dying to write about, and a lot of things that I wanted to say in the moment, that I didn’t. In life you have a lot of situations that pop up and people that come into your life, and sometimes you don’t get to tell them what you wish you would’ve told them. And this album is my opportunity to do that. Track by track, each song is a different confession to a different person.”
—Taylor Swift. (via andthatlittleblackdress) (via kieraaab) (via tswiftfan13)
