“Lately I’ve been thinking about who I want to love, and how I want to love, and why I want to love the way I want to love, and what I need to learn to love that way, and who I need to become to become the kind of love I want to be…and when I break it all down, when I whittle it into a single breath, it essentially comes out like this: Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.”
— Andrea Gibson
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“And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.”
— Kiersten White; The Chaos of Stars
“We lose ourselves in things we love. We find ourselves there, too.”
— Kristin Martz
“I restore myself when I’m alone.”
— Marilyn Monroe
They lived and laughed and loved and left.
Joanne Harris // Cecelia Ahern // Illustration by Cecile Richard // Rupi Kaur // Margarita Karapanou // Miranda July // Taylor Swift // T. R. Hummer // Richard Siken // James Joyce
(source: jonmichaelfrank)
when oscar wilde said "i'm tired of myself tonight, i should like to be someone else' and when sylvia plath said ''i wish i knew what to do with my life, what to do with my heart" and when rilke said "this heavy humanness" .
“There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back.”
— Elizabeth David (via quotemadness)
“Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.”
— Sue Monk Kidd