“If You Only Read The Books That Everyone Else Is Reading, You Can Only Think What Everyone Else Is

“I will not think less of myself just because you do not know how to love me.”

— Unknown (via stay-close)

“The world didn’t know / what to do with my love. / Because it isn’t used to being loved”

— Richard Siken, Self-Portrait Against Red Wallpaper

Grab your coat, leave a note, and run away with me.

William Chapman

salma deera

“Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.”

— Albert Einstein

Anne Sexton, from The Collected Poems; “Flight”

Take care of your loved ones, particularly when they are doing everything in their power to push you away. A broken heart, like a wounded beast, will often lash out at those it is nearest, but that does not mean they don’t need you.

Beau Taplin

Falling in love doesn’t always lead to heartbreak. With the right man, it can be a one-way ticket to paradise.

Catherine Anderson

“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

“I crave space. It charges my batteries. It helps me breathe. Being around people can be so exhausting, because most of them love to take and barely know how to give. Except for a rare few.”

— Katie Kacvinsky