When I Was Young, I Used To Admire Intelligent People; As I Grow Older, I Admire Kind People.

Just because i don’t talk about it, doesn’t mean i forget.

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

— Lemony Snicket; The Beatrice Letters

“Like most sensitive souls, you already know you’re sensitive. You soak up others’ moods and desires like a sponge. You absorb sensation the way a paintbrush grasps each color it touches on a palette.”

— Victoria Erickson

With such a hell in your heart and your head, how can you live? How can you love?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

You can’t live for someone else. At some point you just explode.

Matthew Quick

“Sometimes you have to do what’s best for you, not what’s best for somebody else.”

— Unknown (via stay-close)

“When a toxic person can no longer control you, they will try to control how others see you. This misinformation will feel unfair, but stay above it, trusting that other people will eventually see the truth - just like you did.”

— Unknown

“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”

— Unknown

A year of ballerina tea and vodka

“It’s weird to feel someone’s attention on you that way, like you’re the only thing in the world they’re listening to. Most of the time people are distracted, or just thinking about what they’re going to say next.”

— Lilith Saintcrow, Jealousy