“I don’t ask anyone to stay Not anymore The phone may tremble in my hand But never again Will I beg for someone to love me”— (via melindacarolinee)
Lol shit, that hit a little too close to home
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“I cannot see any reason to trust human beings. They’re obviously capable of almost anything.”— Majgull Axelsson, from April Witch (Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003)
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“It is better to be alone, she figures, than to be with someone who can’t see who you are.”— E. Lockhart, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
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“And sometimes it’s just so hard to fight the tightness in my chest when everything is dark. And it breaks my heart to realize that I am not (always) strong enough to fight for myself which shouldn’t really be a surprise. So I’m sitting on the edge of my bed, wrapped up in my sheets and the emptiness is overwhelming, just like the way my heart beats. And it is so goddamn hard not to forget that there is something that makes it worth the fight and that I cannot just go back to bed, because the only thing I really don’t want to lose is the awareness that I’m the one who gets to chose where my life will take me and what’s my destiny and that my passions are a way of therapy.”— // fighting
j.d.m. (via poetryandthesea)
“Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”— Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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“It’s not your fault that I have been betrayed before, but I wish you understood that it’s hard for me to let my walls down.”— Things I realized when I couldn’t let people in, part IV (via thingsirealizedwhen)
“I never understood how silence could be louder than words until you couldn’t find a reply when I asked you if there was someone else.”— Things I realized when I was drunk, part I (via thingsirealizedwhen)
“Don’t expect people to be willing to do for you as you’d be willing to do for them.”— Things I realized when I wondered what I would tell my high school self, part III (via thingsirealizedwhen)