"I had to experience love without lust, and lust without love to understand what it is to have both at the same time."
Kristen McKee
“I don't trust a girl with a huge bush of pubic hair. Makes you think she has something to hide.”
Scream Queens.
Age of Adeline
Roses are always a good idea.
it’s been a year of intense growth.
dauvoire
he liked her with blonde hair so she coloured it brown
‘Proper’ is a word forged by men who would seek to enslave us with it.
Lucretia, Spartacus: Blood and Sand
Champagne whores, they come, they drink and they leave.
I learned my passion in the good old school of Lover boys.
SEX THE BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS.
the important thingwas that we were being polite and not saying all the things that were making us unhappy, which was the only way we knew how to love each other.
Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
"The oddest things hurt me. They get stuck in my head and replay over and over."
Unknown
She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation.
Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin
"You swallowed everything, like distance. Like the sea, like time. In you everything sank."
Pablo Neruda
"Sometimes I regret being nice, apologizing when I didn’t do anything wrong, and for making unworthy people a priority in my life"
"You don’t meet people by accident."
"I no longer have the energy for meaningless friendships, forced interactions or unnecessary conversations. If we don’t vibrate on the same frequency there’s just no reason for us to waste our time. I’d rather have no one and wait for substance than to not feel someone and fake the funk."
Joquesse Eugenia
"Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you. Read it over. Again. Let those words resonate in your mind."
Nayyirah Waheed
"her. (me). girl is so good at loving everybody (but herself). girl is so good at hating no one (but herself). of course you want to be loved. everyone does. but if your body is a home that even you refuse to live in, why would anyone else ask to move in? (just temporary tenants where your thighs touch under your summer dress) sweetheart, whatever you are running away from, we can all smell."
Warsaw Shire
"A little damage makes people more interesting, right?"
Catherine Hapka, Something Borrowed
"You are so good. So good, you’re always feeling so much. And sometimes it feels like you’re gonna bust wide open from all the feeling, don’t it? People like you are the best in the world, but you sure do suffer for it."
Silas House, This is My Heart for You
"It disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional."
Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
"Look, let’s not remember anything and let’s not talk and let’s not talk and let’s not talk."
Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream
“I love you." "You've loved other people but you still left them." "It's not that simple." "I don't want to be another scalp on your pole.”
Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
“Cheating is easy. There's no swank to infidelity. To borrow against the trust someone has placed in you costs nothing at first. You get away with it, you take a little more and a little more until there is no more to draw on. Oddly, your hands should be full with all that taking but when you open them there's nothing there.”
Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
I USED TO THINK THAT THE WORST THING IN LIFE WAS TO END UP ALL ALONE, IT’S NOT. THE WORST THING IN LIFE IS THE END UP WITH PEOPLE THAT MAKE YOU FEEL ALL ALONE
Robin Williams
i’m almost never serious, and i’m always too serious. too deep, too shallow. too sensitive, too cold-hearted. i’m like a collection of paradoxes. Ferdinand de Saussure
someone once told me that i’d never be able to love unless i learned to love myself, but i loved her so much that i forgot what hating myself felt like.
pyromant
DON’T PUT UP WITH PUNK ASS BITCHES. MY WHOLE LIFE I’VE HAD TO DEAL WITH PUNK ASS BITCHERY AND I DON’T PUT UP WITH IT ANYMORE. IT’S NOT GENDER SPECIFIC: IF A GIRL OR A BOY IS BRINGING DOWN YOUR VIBE, A TOXIC PERSON WHO ISN’T MAKING YOU FEEL GOOD, CUT THEM STRAIGHT AWAY. NO REGRETS, NO REMORSE, NEVER LOOK BACK. I HAVE PEOPLE I CAN COUNT ON TWO HANDS. QUALITY, NOT QUANTITY. KEEP IT CLEAN, STREAMLINED.
Este Haim
WHEN YOU MEET SOMEONE WHO TRIES THEIR HARDEST TO STICK BY YOU REGARDLESS OF HOW DIFFICULT YOU ARE, KEEP THEM. KEEP THEM AT ALL COSTS BECAUSE FINDING SOMEONE WHO CARES ENOUGH TO LOOK PAST YOUR FLAWS ISN’T SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS EVERY DAY.
Midnight Thoughts (I got lucky with you
one day someone will look at you the same way you look at the moon.
That was how I looked at life sometimes, as a warm meal that was growing cold. I knew I had to eat, or else I would die, but I had lost my appetite.
me @ me: i'm literally begging u to get your shit together right now
When you loved him he had his mouth pressed to the lips of a girl who didn’t care. And then he loved you, but by then it was too late. See timing doesn’t matter to things that have already happened. But timing is everything to things that never had the chance to start.
"I don’t accept apologies, you did what made you happy at the expense of my emotions and I understand but i won’t respect it. "
The Weeknd.
"And I hope you realize just how rare she was. And I hope you still think about her from time to time with a mixture of regret and nostalgia. She was worth it, you know. But she’s not going to chase you. A girl like that moves at her own pace. "
“It’s one of those dumb days where nothing’s really wrong but nothing’s really right either and the sky can’t even choose to be white or gray.”
Andrea Portes, Anatomy of a Misfit
“I love you– I do– but I am afraid of making that love too important. Because you’re always going to leave me. We can’t deny it. You’re always going to leave.”
David Levithan, Every Day
“Though I may seem at times somewhat distant from you, through the gray mist of my own moods, I am never far; my thoughts always circle around you.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“All things pass. None of us can manage to hold on to anything. In that way, we live our lives.”
Haruki Murakami, Hear The Wind Sing
“I have this strange feeling that I’m not myself anymore. It’s hard to put into words, but I guess it’s like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.”
Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
It was sometime in October, she had long ago lost track of all the days and it really didn’t matter because one was like another and there were no nights to separate them because she never slept anymore.
Sylvia Plath
at some point, being angry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoning yourself without thinking about it."
Jonathan Tropper, This is Where I Leave You
sometimes people think they know you. they know a few facts about you, and they piece you together in a way that makes sense to them. and if you don’t know yourself very well, you might even believe that they are right. but the truth is, that isn’t you. that isn’t you at all.
Leila Sales
We are neither on good terms or bad. We are no longer anything.
Lora Mathis, The Dust On This Poem Could Choke You
"i’m beginning to think that maybe it’s not just how much you love someone. maybe what matters is who you are when you’re with them."
Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist
"you were cold. spitting snowflakes onto my tongue and watching them melt. you made me crumble like cracking ice. you were frostbitten fingers and icy lips that were so cold they kept you warm. nobody could touch you without getting chills but you were worth chattering teeth. anyone would’ve endured the cold if it meant getting to love you. and oh my god i loved you. but when winter lasts too long things start to die."
summer is over and I miss you but at least I can feel my toes
"For every time I gave a fuck, that fuck, fucked me over."
do you remember flying to space together? the walls singing names of lovers who didn't quite make the cut, our bodies twined round each other. I swear I could of stayed there with you forever but reality was hitting hard and we couldn't be the people we wanted to be. Life seemed so much simpler, is this why I can't stand to go outside? & why life seems so black and white these days.
LAUGH WITH MANY, DON'T TRUST ANY.
Now that i am manager i got too much free time in the week, its all about being the only girl on GTA5 online.
i love when kisses get so intense you just grab at each other because you literally cannot get any closer to each other. Thats my favorite thing. or when you aren’t thinking and kisses get sloppy and you get a mouthful of teeth. i love when you get side tract and you kiss hard and you were supposed to be gentle but you end up being slammed into a wall. i like when things get hot and you both are literally panting because you cant catch your breath
How i miss being blonde
Be kind, be honest, be loving, be true and all of these things will come back to you.
"i stopped explaining myself when i realized people only understand from their level of perception."
i'm not very good at putting my feelings into words. That's why people misunderstand
Haruki Murakami Norwegian Wood
"sometimes you’re 23 and standing in the kitchen of your house making breakfast and brewing coffee and listening to music that for some reason is really getting to your heart. you’re just standing there thinking about going to work and picking up your dry cleaning. and also more exciting things like books you’re reading and trips you plan on taking and relationships that are springing into existence. or fading from your memory, which is far less exciting. and suddenly you just don’t feel at home in your skin or in your house and you just want home but ‘mom’s’ probably wouldn’t feel like home anymore either. there used to be the comfort of a number in your phone and ears that listened everyday and arms that were never for anyone else. but just to calm you down when you started feeling trapped in a five-minute period where nostalgia is too much and thoughts of this person you are feel foreign. when you realize that you’ll never be this young again but this is the first time you’ve ever been this old. when you can’t remember how you got from sixteen to here and all the same feel like sixteen is just as much of a stranger to you now. the song is over. the coffee’s done. you’re going to breathe in and out. you’re going to be fine in about five minutes."
Kalyn Rose Anne
Joe Carrol
when people fall out of love, all i can think is how? i look at your hands and all i can think about is holding them seventy years from now.
70
You were a dream. Then a reality. Now a memory.
Iain Thomas,The City Rises and Falls
since stopping all the drugs and self hating.
i have grown one juicy ass.
sad to see my bones go though.
Sometimes
I forget I’m actually a huge piece of shit
….sometimes
I forget I’m actually a huge piece of shit
….sometimes
there’s no point holding onto someone who’s already let you go.
Unknown
NO DICE BITCH
i do not trust words. i even question actions. but i never doubt patterns.
i loved every stupid broken piece of you. i swallowed your badness whole and held my hand out for more. people thought i was stupid or heroic. i don’t know which is better. do you remember sitting on that mountain? i watched the moonlight stream through the cracks in your heart and i kissed them. your sad was so big it took up my whole world. there was nowhere i could turn without wanting to hold your hand. there was never any hope for us and you knew that but i was the only light that never left so you cupped your hands around my warmth like you would die without it. i could’ve lived forever on that mountain you know. i could’ve washed myself after every dirty day with you and come up clean. i could’ve been the only good thing. we could’ve called it love.
Fortesa Latifi - stupid or heroic
i don’t think people love me. they love versions of me i have spun for them, versions of me they have construed in their minds. the easy versions of me, the easy parts of me to love.
i thought i was broken and i thought i was used up and i thought i had nothing left to give. i’d given everything and i didn’t really know what was left. but there’s a part of us that is unbreakable. you always find it again.
Emma Watson
“The moon and the sun will never be
One;
So you walk aimlessly every afternoon
Asking yourself “what if?” and
“What happened?”
You always kick the rocks in front of you, thinking that you could send it somewhere–
Near a tree, near a bench, or near a river,
But not on the doomed place you are now.
You ask yourself why you keep
On writing about the person you love,
Without your hands getting numb,
Or without your ribs getting broken.
You wonder what will happen to the
Words never said, to the wishes
Never heard, and to the desires
Never expressed.
You keep on walking at the
Road all alone while everybody’s hand
Is occupied.
Then you remember that the Sun and
The Moon never meet;
They keep on haunting and following
Each other, embracing and nearly
Kissing each other’s skin but they really never collided with each other–
No union involved.
Because some people are not meant
To stay,
Some of them just visit to give
Us a blanket of darkness; thus,
Illuminating our brightness.
Some of them just visit to get from
Us a fraction of lightness so that they
can shine too.
Some of them just visit to teach
Us that brightness and darkness always collide, and the aftermath of the collision will either bring constellation
Made of someone’s smiles,
Or dark holes made by someone’s tears.
But you must remember
That the people we want are not the people we need;
And that the people who hurt us will lead us to the people who will love us.
Everything will be in place at the right time,
The planets will soon fall into a straight line–
And you–your heartaches, your mistakes, your imperfections and all the tears you cried will fall perfectly into the right place
For the person who will make you believe that love is worth it,
And that sunday evenings with that person are perfect versions of Paradise.
The sun and the moon will never be one;
But remember that eclipses
Happen for those who
Believe.”
“Why I Love Eclipses”
i don’t think people love me. they love versions of me i have spun for them, versions of me they have construed in their minds. the easy versions of me, the easy parts of me to love.
i thought i was broken and i thought i was used up and i thought i had nothing left to give. i’d given everything and i didn’t really know what was left. but there’s a part of us that is unbreakable. you always find it again.
Emma Watson
“The moon and the sun will never be
“Don’t look for the old me anymore. The person that you once knew is now gone. I have transformed and morphed into this stronger being that no longer needs you.”
“She was most beautiful when she did as she wanted; when she ate what she wanted and sighed in satisfaction. When she wore what she wanted and walked in confidence. She was particularly spectacular when she loved…even when she received nothing in return.”
i hope you find someone who knows how to love you when you are sad.
never really had a type.. i just like the way i vibe with certain people.
Reyna Biddy
nobody has ever left me just once. they always come back to see how their absence dulled the vibrance in my eyes before disappearing again.
Don’t kill yourself over a boy. he’ll bring another girl to your funeral.
he said "dad, do you think I should win her back, I can't do it alone."
these girls born in the 90’s are dangerous
The Weeknd
"she gave herself to boys that didn’t matter because she was trying to forget the only one who did"
I know you didn’t believe me when I said the water stains in my books were from reading in the bath, but I also know that you had no idea I wasn’t weeping over the soft words of Nabokov. If you could have only seen it:hot angry searing saltwater,boiling over and spilling out onto inky sheets, so differentfrom regular tears:how they seep into the paper,eating the words up greedily,bleeding carbon-black.I know girls are supposed to be gentle and kind
and soft
and I’m sorry.
I can’t help that the way people chew food
makes me want to burn everything down
or that when someone asks me to repeat my question,
my chest burns and I spit out hornets.
I’m sorry, and I’m sorry that being
sorry makes me angry too.
I fucking wish I could fucking say that when I fucking broke my desk
or kicked my fucking closet door in
or fucking beat my fucking knuckles blue
that it felt better, that it left
and didn’t come back, but instead
it’s the people that leave
and the anger that stays.
We are all three-quarters water,
and I can feel myself boiling.
It’s like an itchy red sweater,two sizes too small;
something my mother
handed down to me
and her mother
handed down to her.
I tried; I always do. But then we always ended up arguing
about something stupid and I
could feel my knuckles
turn white
and I felt it,
I felt it and I hated it and
I hated that I hated it
and I lost it and I saw it in your eyes,
just like I saw it in everyone else’s,
like they were watching the eye of a storm,
like they were realizing why hurricanes
have human names.
You fumbled over my body in the dark:a driver looking for the brakes,
coming up empty
right before the collision.
I think of the wayyour heart
was covered in oil-stains
from being touched so much,
and how I never understood how
you managed to not set it on fire:
mine is covered in steel
and still rusts like iron.
Sometimes I wish I could make a pearl, just how oysters do it
out of the toxins in the ocean
that seep through their shells,
except I would make it
out of how much I fucking hate everything
so it wouldn’t poison me anymore,
so I would have something to show
for all this blackness inside of me,
so I could spit it out on your doorstep and say,
“There.”
You left me like a burning city, and I don’t blame you.
I just wish I wasn’t the oneholding the match.
”“Anger” - Kristina Kutateladze
For women who are tied to the moon, love alone is not enough. We insist each day wrap it’s knuckles through our heart strings and pull. The lows. The joy. The poetry. We dance at the edge of a cliff, you have fallen off. So it goes. You will climb up again.You rare girl, once again, you have a body that belongs to no lover, to no father, belongs to no one but you. Wear your sorrow like the lines on your palm. Like a shawl to keep you warm at night. Don’t mourn the love that is lost to you now. It is a book of poems whose meters worked their way into your pulse. Even if it has slipped from your hands, it will stay in your body.You loved a man who treated you like absinthe, half poison and half god. He tried to sweeten you, to water you down. So you left. And now you have your heart all to yourself again. A heart like a stone cottage. Heart like a lover’s diary. Hope like an ocean.
Letter From Anais Nin to Clementine von Radics
That’s what really scares me.
Falling in love is easy. Having sex is easier. But bumping into someone that can spark your soul - that shit is rare.
You could fuck four, five, all the people in a god damned room and you’d only feel a connection with one. Or none at all.
And what sucks is despite the undeniable real magnetic pull between the two of you, more often than not, you don’t end up together.
I’m afraid I won’t meet anyone else I can connect with.
I’m scared it’ll be just you.
”Sade Andria Zabala (surfandwrite) | Connection
The Weeknd
"she gave herself to boys that didn’t matter because she was trying to forget the only one who did"
and soft
and I’m sorry.
I can’t help that the way people chew food
makes me want to burn everything down
or that when someone asks me to repeat my question,
my chest burns and I spit out hornets.
I’m sorry, and I’m sorry that being
sorry makes me angry too.
I fucking wish I could fucking say that when I fucking broke my desk
or kicked my fucking closet door in
or fucking beat my fucking knuckles blue
that it felt better, that it left
and didn’t come back, but instead
it’s the people that leave
and the anger that stays.
We are all three-quarters water,
and I can feel myself boiling.
It’s like an itchy red sweater,two sizes too small;
something my mother
handed down to me
and her mother
handed down to her.
I tried; I always do. But then we always ended up arguing
about something stupid and I
could feel my knuckles
turn white
and I felt it,
I felt it and I hated it and
I hated that I hated it
and I lost it and I saw it in your eyes,
just like I saw it in everyone else’s,
like they were watching the eye of a storm,
like they were realizing why hurricanes
have human names.
You fumbled over my body in the dark:a driver looking for the brakes,
coming up empty
right before the collision.
I think of the wayyour heart
was covered in oil-stains
from being touched so much,
and how I never understood how
you managed to not set it on fire:
mine is covered in steel
and still rusts like iron.
Sometimes I wish I could make a pearl, just how oysters do it
out of the toxins in the ocean
that seep through their shells,
except I would make it
out of how much I fucking hate everything
so it wouldn’t poison me anymore,
so I would have something to show
for all this blackness inside of me,
so I could spit it out on your doorstep and say,
“There.”
You left me like a burning city, and I don’t blame you.
I just wish I wasn’t the oneholding the match.
”“Anger” - Kristina Kutateladze
That’s what really scares me.
Falling in love is easy. Having sex is easier. But bumping into someone that can spark your soul - that shit is rare.
You could fuck four, five, all the people in a god damned room and you’d only feel a connection with one. Or none at all.
And what sucks is despite the undeniable real magnetic pull between the two of you, more often than not, you don’t end up together.
I’m afraid I won’t meet anyone else I can connect with.
I’m scared it’ll be just you.
”Sade Andria Zabala (surfandwrite) | Connection
“Anything you want in love you should have. If you want someone to send you flowers just because it’s Tuesday, you should have that. If you want someone to write you love letters, you should have that. If you want someone who looks at you like the sun rises and sets because of you, you should have that. In life, we often have to settle for “okay” or “good enough”, love should not be one of those things.”
“Anything you want in love you should have. If you want someone to send you flowers just because it’s Tuesday, you should have that. If you want someone to write you love letters, you should have that. If you want someone who looks at you like the sun rises and sets because of you, you should have that. In life, we often have to settle for “okay” or “good enough”, love should not be one of those things.”
“I wonder if you know yet that you’ll leave me. That you are a child playing with matches and I have a paper body. You will meet a girl with a softer voice and stronger arms and she will not have violent secrets or an affection for red wine or eyes that never stay dry. You will fall into her bed and I’ll go back to spending Friday nights with boys who never learn my last name. I have chased off every fool who has tried to sleep beside me. You think it’s romantic to fuck the girl who writes poems about you. You think I’ll understand your sadness because I live inside my own. But I will show up at your door at 2 am, wild-eyed and sleepless. and try and find some semblance of peace in your breastbone. and you will not let me in. You will tell me to go home.”
Clementine von Radics
Our love was dirty and the sex was clean. It’s supposed to be the other way around.
We were so young, what else were we to do? We had nothing to give but ourselves, pulling and ripping each other apart until there was nothing to give except hollow eyes and empty i love yous, our bodies, and it didn’t even feel special anymore, it never really did, just empty angry lust for something greater.
“The woman has a lethal ego, she can make you feel that she hates you, while she’s madly in love with you.”
1) A boy telling you you’re pretty won’t make you see the beauty in the fullness of your cheeks, in redness of your lips at 2 in the morning when tequila is making the bar bathroom spin. He can’t take away the ugliness that you see in yourself, you have to do that.
2) You have to be ready to hear someone say they love you. You have to be ready, and you have to be willing, and you have to listen. Because sometimes, they won’t say those three words, they’ll put a blanket over you while you’re watching a movie, they’ll kiss your cheek when they think you’re asleep, they’ll smile when they see you first thing in the morning. But you, you have to be willing to see it, feel it, let it in. Letting someone love you takes practice.
3) Don’t make compromises you can’t live with. Compromise is a different version of what you want, not a whole other Universe.
4) Learn to say no. No - to a movie you don’t want to watch; no - to sex you don’t want to have, no- to a relationship that’s driving you mad. Say no - to things that hurt you, to people that extinguish your fire, to jobs you hate and places that are desolate. There are bad things that we can’t control, bad things that happen and we are sucked into and have to feel with every fibre of our being, but the rest - learn to distance yourself, learn to say no.
5) Don’t expect people to walk through fire for you - not your parents, not your friends, not the person you’re in love with. Love doesn’t mean sacrifice, love shouldn’t mean sacrifice. Don’t expect someone to give away pieces of them, so they could fit you better. And don’t feel hurt when they refuse to - it’s self-preservation. Instead - learn from them. Do it as well.
6) Don’t tether yourself to people. Learn to make connections, to love, with both your feet steady on the ground. Learn to let people pass through your life; like a summer breeze, not a storm that’s just been unleashed.
7) Learn the difference between growth and growing up before it’s too late. Rooftops and water fights and ice cream for breakfast can be a part of your life at 10, 25, or 35. But by the time you’re 35 you need to learn to say enough, to be able to walk away, you need to be able to love yourself. Love yourself the way you loved yourself at 10, before the world had a chance to fill your head with ugliness.
marina v.
“who did that to you? Who fucked you up so bad, emotionally and mentally that you’ve completely shut down anyone who tries to help you. You don’t talk about your feeling, you push people away, and you let negative people in. You refuse to open up and let someone love or care about you. Who fucking did that to you?”
I’ve spent my whole life running. Running from men who want to touch my hips and place their mouths on my neck. I’ve spent my life running from men who want to cup my cheek and whisper words between a rustle of a sheet. I don’t know how not to run, don’t know how to protect myself. I’ve been alone. It’s been me and the cavern in my heart, empty beds with cold sheets. I’ve been running and running, I feel that my feet are made of the earth and my arms will sprout wings. I don’t know how to stay, I don’t know how to let you love me, I don’t know how to say ‘yes, come in.’
loving you was the most exquisite form of self destruction, it was the most intense few months of my life, the most eye opening experience based on self love. because i gave you all of me, everything i had was yours and it was up to you what you did with it. you gave me the part of you everyone else already had, and you threw what i gave you away. so for that i thank you. because you showed me that love isn’t the strongest emotion to flow through us, hatred is. the hatred you throw at yourself flooded our relationship like darkness drowning earth at night, it suffocated us. but it’s okay, because i’ve learnt in the process of loosing you and i think that’s important..to get something good out of it. i’m not saying i’m happy all the time, i’m not saying i’m not hurting because i do sometimes. it’s like watching the sun slowly make a shadow invisible, it happens gradually, something inside of me is slowly breaking, it’s slow, but it’s happening and it’s painful..because i was in love you. this isn’t an invitation for you to enter my life again because i’ve been down that path and i’m not choosing that route again. so i’m sorry, i hope you find someone who can make you happy.
she was pretty in the kind of way that said she’d run a dagger through your heart and still keep smiling the whole time."
Richelle Mead, Silver Shadows
may the next few months be a period of magnificent transformation.
"I really want to do something nice for you tonight!"
"why?"
"Just to say thank you for you being my girlfriend and show you how much I love you"
I pretend a lot of shit doesn't get to me
i lost my mind trying to be on yours
i have to be honest with you. i think about you a lot. all the time, actually. in the morning, at night, in the middle of my day. it’s you. it’s just always you.
You never really see how toxic someone is until you breathe fresher air.
Begin, not with a page, but with a book.
For your new love deserves the very best.
And careful not to take the steps you took,
Ensure that this new love can pass the test.
There was a time you passed by using cheats,
And every problem could be solved with fibs.
You told yourself white lies did count as feats
Protecting what you had like fractured ribs.
Yet know that if you build your house with lies
Or don’t forgive your fabricated past,
The home you build will rain down from the skies,
And each new love will fail much like the last.
The broken heart you had has come to mend.
Obey the rules or this love too could end.
Sonnet 21: Rewritten Rule Book, Sarah Marie Pardy
Caring about people can be hard. there will people that you will give so much of yourself to that you will have scant left to work with for yourself. this causes you to rely on the very people that you’ve given your all to only to realize they may not be capable of giving it all back. you’ll tell yourself that you don’t do things for people just to benefit in return, but there’s definitely a point where doing things without any sort of reciprocation or appreciation gets old. but as much as they tell you that you matter, you will have nothing to show for it and you’ll start to wonder why you’ve given so much of yourself away for nothing in return. you no longer just want to be told that you matter, you want to be shown it. unfortunately, most people are all talk.
Sarah Marie Pardy, I Hope I Never Have a Daughter: Reason #24
"but i tried, didn’t i? goddamnit, at least i did that."
if you don’t like where you are, move on. you are not a tree.
Know your worth. know when you’ve had enough. and choose to move on from people who chip away at your happiness.
Unknown
i’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower, i can’t quite make out what it is. it takes time.
Charles Bukowski
She was the kind of girlfriend god gives you young, so you’ll know loss the rest of your life
The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao
the last 4 years have been the most informative, happiest, hurtful, thoughtful, altering, moulding, powerful, accepting years of my life.
Life is very odd
I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
WITH TEARS IN MY EYES I BEGGED YOU TO STAY YOU SAID HEY MAN I LOVE YOU BUT NO FUCKING WAY.
Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. it’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them."
Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper
They say you don’t get over someone until you find someone or something better. as humans, we don’t deal well with emptiness. any empty space must be filled. immediately. the pain of emptiness is too strong. it compels the victim to fill that place. a single moment with that empty spot causes excruciating pain. that’s why we run from distraction to distraction and from attachment to attachment."
Yasmin Mogahed
My boyfriend is so dreamy.
That’s the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drive people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life.
Chuck Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk
Have you ever just looked at someone and thought, “I really love you”. They’re just talking or humming or watching a movie or reading a book or laughing or something, and there’s something about them in that moment—their body is alive, there’s a light in their eyes, something—that makes you think, “I just really love you.”
get mad. don’t get even. do better. much better. rise above. become so engulfed in your own success that you forget it ever happened.
Unknown
the truth is, i pretend to be a cynic, but i am really a dreamer who is terrified of wanting something she may never get."
Joanna Hoffman
i find it strange that you could be so happy
yet you still find yourself here?
"… and the more hurt she gets, the more venomous she grows."
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
"… and the more hurt she gets, the more venomous she grows."
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
"i’m not for everyone. i’m barely for me."
Marc Maron
It doesn't make sense to let go of something you have wanted for so long, but it also doesn't make sense to hold on when there's nothing there.
"her vibe is attractive. people think she’s stuck in her own little world but i like the fact that all she cares about is her own happiness."
iambrillyant
We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it’s our job to invent something better.
Choke, by Chuck Palahniuk
sometimes i think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. maybe pretending is how you get brave."
George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
Thank you for the plants and the animals
Oh bring me sweet dreams tonight
And help me be good tomorrow
Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.
Victoria Holt
Summer in the city means cleavage, cleavage, cleavage, and I start to miss you, baby, sometimes. I’ve been staying up and drinking in a late night establishment telling strangers personal things.
You can have a crush on someone right off the bat. You can want to jump their bones immediately. You could probably decide they were funny within an hour. But love? Forget it. Love takes history, shared adventures, drunk dials at 2 a.m., visits to the emergency room, a couple of road trips, high-fives after purchasing a couch and the resulting argument when you realize it won’t fit through the front door. Love, my poor stupid man, takes time.
Jeanine Fritz, Colorado Daily
V.C. Andrews, from “Fallen Hearts
I get very dark moods for no reason. Nothing in particular brings it on. You can be having the best time of your life and yet you’re utterly and totally miserable. I get very anti-social, depressed and irritable with people. I don’t have time for them. I can’t make phone calls and stuff. I just sit on my own for days."
I've got my feet on the street, but I can't stop flying.
My head's in the clouds, but at least I'm trying.
I'm outta control, but I'm tied up tight.
Come in, come out tonight.
Summer rays and boys that stray
never think before you make your next turn.
they'll say just let her crash and burn - she'll learn.
you're such a hopeless romantic; foolish enough to believe in love.
your face isn't so pretty covered in smoke and dirty boys' kisses.
2010
we all make mistakes, i'm sorry mine affect you.
Used to be one of the rotten ones and i liked you for that.
Young ones.
Darling we're the young ones.
Young ones shouldn't be afraid
To live, love, there's a song to be sung,
Cause we may not
Be the young ones
very long.
Sid Tepper
I need to break out, this life is getting dull again but then my boyfriend shows up with handcuff and the most wicked smile on his face.
oh baby where have you been all my life?
you kept calling me the coward, and i believed you. it wasn’t until years later that i realised, what really made me a coward was choosing to believe in your version of who i was, instead of the truth. "
Sissi J., My Internal Monologues
“It’s okay if you’re crazy,” he said softly. “You don’t even know—” “I don’t have to know,” he said. “I’m rooting for you.”
Levi and Cath FANGIRL
So: enough of this terror. We deserve to know light. And grow evermore lighter and lighter.
Joanna Newsom;
The fuckers. There, I feel better. God-damned human race. There, I feel better.” —The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
Charles Bukowski
You know why I run away from shit all the time? Cause I don't trust anyone. If I'm gonna stay, I need to know the truth.
I’m glad when they arrive and I’m glad when they leave. I’m glad when I hear their heels approaching my door and I’m glad when those heels walk away. I’m glad to fuck. I’m glad to care and I’m glad when it’s over. And since it’s always either starting or finishing, I’m glad most of the time.
excerpt from Scarlet Charles Bukowski
Bukowski
my head keeps on laughing at me from love, unrequited and too much wine. the boy says hell is like nothing or no one had ever been born and I think, I’d quite like to go there for all of my time.
I wait for you but you don’t exist. The person who answers is wearing your skin, moving your lips. Is this all that there is? I greet my sadness like an old friend.
"not everything is supposed to become something beautiful and long-lasting. sometimes people come into your life to show you what is right and what is wrong, to show you who you can be, to teach you to love yourself, to make you feel better for a little while, or to just be someone to walk with at night and spill your life to. not everyone is going to stay forever, and we still have to keep on going and thank them for what they’ve given us."
Emery Allen
i wanna hate you, i’m mad as hell, oh but a part of me still loves you, and hopes and prays to god you’re doin’ well."
Jana Kramer
sometimes not telling people anything is a good thing.
it terrifies me how talented you are at turning your emotions on and off. how you can be so kind and loving one moment then cold like ice the next. whenever you open your mouth, i never know whether it’s going to be i love you or it’s over."
Beau Taplin || U n p r e d i c t a b l e
i can’t be shaken anymore, by anyone. i’ve got to that point in my life that if you’re not a good person, and you can’t make me feel good with love and life, then fuck off, basically."
How could you love me that much without asking for anything in return?
i fucked the wrong people
i slid my tongue
in the wrong mouths
i sipped too many drinks
of alcohol
and smoked too many cigarettes\
and smoked too many cigarettes\
but i won’t apologize for the ways i killed my sadness.
“She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know ”
Marilyn Monroe
(2008) No-one did
(2009-2010) Too many people did
(2011) "Love"
(2012) Have you been drinking?
(2013) It hurts not to
(2014) I'm so fucking bored
(2015) Obession
(2016) Recover
(2017) Love
(2015) Obession
(2016) Recover
(2017) Love
"i am slowly learning that some people are not good for me, no matter how much i love them. i deserve someone who is gentle and kind, because my soul is getting tired. realizing that i deserve something good is one of the first steps."
Michelle K. Why I Need To Say Goodbye To You
"i am complicated.
half of my poems are warning people not to get close to me
and the other half
are begging them to come near.
i am not simple.
i am not the kind of person you fall in love with.
please, love me."
Amanda Helm
"i wonder
whose arms would i run and fall into
if i were drunk
in a room with everyone
i have ever loved."
I already know the answer to this.
"But i just wanted her in my life. i had fallen in love, even if she was still finding her way."
The Last Lecture
My words mean nothing to you. People like you can't be reached. I wonder whether your madness isn't the worst kind. You act healthy, act it so well that everyone believes you--everyone except me, because I know how rotten you are.
Persona
"every person has a breaking point. with the right words, they’ll break like glass."
i was so in love with you that i ignored how horribly you treated me.
i think you’re just remembering the good stuff. next time you look back, i really think you should look again."
500 Days of Summer
stop glorifying the good stuff and romanticizing the bad.
"i hope my absence haunts you."
Six Word Story
I think the sign of a true soulmate isn’t someone you just want to do the super cool stuff with. A real soulmate is the person who makes any ordinary day fun. Some people make all these huge plans to do with their special someone, fuck that. Find someone who you can take grocery shopping and still have a blast with. Find someone who makes you look forward to waking up on Monday.
don't let my actions mislead you, i might fuck with you but i don't need you.
1. Get more sleep
2. Drink more water
3. Get more exercise
4. Read more
5. Get more organized
6. Clean more often
7. Explore more
8. Relax more
9. Have more patience
10. Be happy
i loved you to the point of ruin. i loved you until my lungs were filled with ash
Tina Tran
if she doesn't scare the hell out of you a little, she's not the one.
Whatever comes, let it come. What stays, let it stay. What goes, let it go
do you ever wish you had a second chance to meet someone again for the first time?
you’re the first and last person i’ll ever love - a boy
the unhappiest people in this world are those who care the most about what other people think.
C. JoyBell C
i don’t do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.
Allen Ginsberg, The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice
what do you say to a girl that’s heard it all before?"
PARTYNEXTDOOR
"THE SUN’S GONE DIM, AND
THE MOON’S TURNED BLACK;
FOR I LOVED HIM, AND
HE DIDN'T LOVE BACK."
Dorothy Parker
You have to hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because most of life’s lessons are learned in pain.
"NOTHING CAN WEAR YOU OUT LIKE CARING ABOUT PEOPLE."
I’m so fucking weird
It’s like:
I’m the nicest rude person you’ll ever meet.
I don’t give a fuck about anything but at the same time, I care about a lot.
I hate people but I want to be everyone’s friend.
I hate myself but I’m completely fabulous.
I need help
some people are better for you than others … if they suck the self-confidence and cheery mood out of you, let them be friends with someone else."
Owen Fitzpatrick
i am just very uncomfortable with the way i am perceived like there’s a disconnect between my actual identity and the identity people assume i have and it makes me uncomfortable and stressed out
My life is a struggle between my need for acceptance, my fear of rejection, and a desire to not care at all.
Anonymous
the naked female body is treated so weirdly in society. it’s like people are constantly begging to see it, but once they do, someone’s a hoe."
Lena Horne
i want to continue being crazy; living my life the way i dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be."
Paulo Coelho
things i’m bad at:
eye contact
expressing feelings
making decisions
telling someone what i want
explaining why i act a certain way
getting motivated to do stuff
knowing what i want
paying attention to people
I’m honestly not a bad person, my heart is in the right place; it’s just that my head isn’t.
Adam Zucconi
i forgive people but that doesn't mean i accept their behavior or trust them. i forgive them for me, so i can let go and move on with my life.
My pride is stronger than my feelings. Don’t try to play me. I could think of you 24/7 and you still wouldn’t hear from me
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