“You Can’t Change The Past But You Can Alter The Future.”

“How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever meet them? But you’ll never meet them. All right, so we do the best we can. Granted. But we must still realize that love is just the result of a chance encounter.”

— Charles Bukowski

“And I’m a master of speaking silently — all my life I’ve spoken silently and I’ve lived through entire tragedies in silence.”

— The Meek One, Fyodor Dostoevsky (b. 11 Nov 1821)

“I’m homesick all the time … I just don’t know where home is. There’s this promise of happiness out there. I know it. I even feel it sometimes. But it’s like chasing the moon - just when I think I have it, it disappears into the horizon.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

I’m afraid I’m mentally ill but I’m even more afraid I’m not because that means everyone experiences this nightmare too

“Feeling of discontinuity as a person. My various selves… how do they all come together? And anxiety at moments of transition from one “role” to another. Will I make it fifteen minutes from now? Be able to step into, inhabit the person I’m supposed to be? This is felt as an infinitely hazardous leap, no matter how often it’s successfully executed.”

— Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980 (via luthienne)

“I have the feeling I’m moving somewhere, patiently, impatiently, in my loneliness.”

— The Dream of a Common Language; Not Somewhere Else, But Here, Adrienne Rich

““Tell me that you hate me.””

— The Wicked King, Holly Black

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