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“One of the hardest lessons in life is letting go. Whether it’s guilt, love, anger, loss or betrayal, change is never easy. We fight to hold on and we fight to let go.”
— Unknown
I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.
-Sylvia Plath
some songs just aren't meant to be played on speakers they need to be heard through headphones. it's called intimacy
وجَلس حزنِي تِجاهي تأملني قليلآ ثم أجهش، الحزن بالبكاء وبَقيت صامتة
And my sorrow sat next to me, stared at me for a while,then it burst into tears and I remained silent.
-Ghada el-Samman
"I've always liked quiet people: You never know if they're dancing in a daydream or if they're carrying the weight of the world."
- John Green, Looking for Alaska
if I'm never told that no grave can hold their body down and that they'll crawl home to me, at least once in my life, what's the point?
“I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing with. I maintained a set distance, carefully monitoring the person’s attitude so that they wouldn’t get any closer. I didn’t easily swallow what other people told me. My only passions were books and music”
-Haruki Murakami
How can you survive in this cruel world of insanity!
Assert dominance by being crazier
Jane Austen was right when she said “I am half agony, half hope.”
“Your handwriting, the way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It’s all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self portrait. Everything is a diary.”
-Chuck Palahniuk
“It’s raining let’s go outside” “look out the window, the moon is beautiful” “I finally read the books you’ve been talking so much about, I loved it” “wait stand there , the lighting is amazing” “<3” “I bought you this book, I think you might like it” “oh my, look at all the stars” “let’s go to a bookstore” “I got us some coffee” “here, listen to this” “let’s make a playlist” “this is a horrible idea. I’m in”
2023, a year of healing
You spend your whole life stuck in labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
- John Green, looking for Alaska
when Alaska Young said " y'all smoke to enjoy it, I smoke to die " and when she said " how will I ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering " and when she said " today is the past " and when she said " going home isn't an option " and when she said
"I was like a patient who cannot tell the doctor where it hurts, only that it does"
-Khalid Hosseini
head not empty, many abstract uncommunicatable thoughts
“if people were rain, i was a drizzle and she was a hurricane.” — looking for alaska, john green
let the grass grow, ruel.
My love for books, reading, pinterest, candles, listening to music, rainy days, staring at moon and iced coffee is infinite.
i hope you’re reminded that you are loved every time you look at the moon.
When you crave pain and rage and violence and death and destruction but you're just a girl.