Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir Of Healing From Complex Trauma

“That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.”

— John Green

"Only know you've been high when you're feeling low / Only hate the road when you're missing home"

-Passenger, Let Her Go

hozier wrote “and I couldn't whisper when you needed it shouted.” AND “we'll lay here for years or for hours, your hand in my hand, so still and discreet.” and still expected me to be okay.

“You don’t need another human being to make your life complete, but let’s be honest. Having you wounds kissed by someone who doesn’t see them as disasters in your soul but cracks to put their love into is the most calming thing in this world.”

— Emery Allen

“But when I make her laugh, swear it cures my depressing thoughts”

-the weeknd; here we go… again ft. tyler, the creator

Clarice Lispector, from “That’s Where I’m Going”, Soulstorm: Stories (tr. Alexis Levitin)

“The broken will always be able to love harder than most. Once you’ve been in the dark, you learn to appreciate everything that shines.”

— Unknown

“I just want someone to love me hardest when I least deserve it.”

— Javson Johnson, “Building”

And I wonder, when I sing along with you... if everything could ever feel this real forever... if anything could ever be this good again...

Foo Fighters' "Everlong" (1997)

“I didn’t know what to call it, what was happening between us, but I liked it. It felt silly and fragile and good.”

— Ransom Riggs; Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children