“When You Love Someone You Protect Them From The Pain, You Don’t Become The Cause Of It.”

"I Got a mind full of questions and a teacher in my soul."

Eddie Vedder

sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

when kafka said ‘you wouldn’t believe the kind of person I could become if you wanted it’ and when brontë said ‘if you ever looked at me with what I know is in you, I would be your slave’ and when Sartre said ‘if I’ve got to suffer it may as well be at your hands’

I wish i loved myself enough to leave you.

“I lie here, paralytic inside this soul - screaming for you ‘til my throat is numb.”

— Skillet’s “Rebirthing” (2006)

“Making love was never about you and me in a bed. We made love whenever we held hands.”

— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You

"I've tried getting better, did all of the twelve steps / Whoever would'a thought? Whoever could've guessed? / The harder that I chase it, the further that it gets"

-Grandson, Riptide

Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

Meeeeeee fr

I had a sense of preparation for a love to come. Like the extension of canopies, the unrolling of ceremonial carpets, as if I must first create a marvelous world in which to house it, in which to receive adequately this guest of honor.

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume One 1931-1934, Anaïs Nin