Bianca Stone, From What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems; “Other Wound”

“Behind every strong person lies a broken child who had to learn to stand up and take no shit.”

— lonerwolf (via stay-close)

“Never be afraid to fall apart because it is an opportunity to rebuild yourself the way you wish you had been all along.”

— Rae Smith

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Helen Keller

“I hope that someday, somebody wants to hold you for twenty minutes straight, and that’s all they do. They don’t pull away. They don’t look at your face. They don’t try to kiss you. All they do is wrap you up in their arms, without an ounce of selfishness in it.”

— Unknown

Reginald Dwayne Betts “BALLAD OF THE GROUNDHOG”

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

Unknown

I can only cry when I'm drunk

I can only feel when I'm numb

“Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.”

— Virginia Woolf, Selected Diaries

I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.

-Sylvia Plath

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

Mother Teresa