“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
“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
“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’m afraid people gonna leave me because dealing with me and my sadness is too much.
“You can’t change the past but you can alter the future.”
— Don’t give up. (via suspend)
“When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.”
— Alexander den Heijer
““Tell me that you hate me.””
— The Wicked King, Holly Black
my scars are fading but my sadness isn’t