“Sometimes Something Good Has To Be Subtracted From Your Lives Before Something Better Can Take Its

“Things will happen in your life that you can’t stop. But that’s no reason to shut out the world.”

— Unknown

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

— Unknown

“When all the wild summer was in her gaze”

—

William Butler Yeats 

Leo Quotes

Fariha Róisín, from Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind

[Text ID: “I never fought back, I learned how to cry silently, I bore my sins.”]

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, from “Carmilla”

“Some walks you have to take alone.”

— Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

there is only one of everything, margaret atwood

Bianca Stone, from What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems; “Cutting Odette’s Fingernails”

“I would open my heart and carry it in my hand so that others may know also; for there is no deeper desire than the desire of being revealed. We all want that little light in us to be taken from under the bushel.”

— Kahlil Gibran in his letter to Mary Elizabeth Haskell dated 11 Nov 1911, Beloved Prophet: The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran and Mary Haskell, and Her Private Journal 

Maybe I’ll see you in another life, if this one wasn’t enough.

Florence + the Machine