“It’s Like When Someone Says, ‘How Are You?’ Do You Say, ‘Well, My Head Hurts And I’m Lonely

“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”

— Cormac McCarthy

You know you are doing well when you lose the interest of looking back.

Unknown

Mary Oliver, "October." Devotions

“But I must admit I miss you terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby.”

— Lemony Snicket; The Beatrice Letters

And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.

John Steinbeck

“Forgive me if I don’t talk much at times. It’s loud enough in my head.”

— Unknown

“The past doesn’t need you anymore. Your future does.”

— Unknown (via resqectable)

“It’s like when someone says, ‘How are you?’ Do you say, ‘Well, my head hurts and I’m lonely and depressed and I’m worried about everything and the world is collapsing and full of evil’? Or do you say, ‘I’m fine’?”

— Sara Shepard, The Visibles (via resqectable)

“Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.”

— W. S. Merwin, Separation

“Still, being able to feel pain was good, he thought. It’s when you can’t even feel pain anymore that you’re in real trouble.”

— Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage