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It's one or the other. Can only pick one!

Which one do you choose?

Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals

“Thank you for misunderstanding me, rejecting me and not seeing me and teaching me to always see myself.”

— Unknown (via perfectquote)

"My name's Dante," he said.

That made me laugh harder. "Sorry," I said.

"It's okay. People laugh at my name."

"No, no," I said. "See, it's just that my name's Aristotle."

His eyes lit up. I mean, the guy was ready to listen to every word I said.

"Aristotle," I repeated.

Then we both kind of went a little crazy. Laughing.

"In the best conversations, you don't even remember what you talked about, only how it felt. It felt like we were in some place your body can't visit, some place with no ceiling and no walls and no floor and no instruments."

-John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

"But when people understand one another without speaking, it can often leave them with very little to talk about, don’t you think?"

-Tove Jansson

Call Me By Your Name, André Aciman // The Voyage Out, Virginia Woolf// Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Alire Sáenz//A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman// John Green, Turtles All The Way Down// David Augsburger// Tove Jansson// Meg Wolitzer

Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive... it's the thing that makes you better than you used to be.

— Jennifer Weiner, Fly Away Home

Me_irl

“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

“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

— Oscar Wilde

“Love isn’t like it is in the books.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald; Emotional Bankruptcy

“We lose ourselves in things we love. We find ourselves there, too.”

— Kristin Martz