You don’t need water to feel like you’re drowning, do you?
— Jodi Picoult (via lavandula)
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
— J.D. Salinger, The Catcher In The Rye
And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
— The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
— Hermann Hesse (via substancem)
When we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness - and call it love - true love.
— Robert Fulghum (via bavarde)
When I was supposed to be awake, I was asleep, when I was supposed to speak, I was silent, when a pleasure offered itself to me, I avoided it. My hunger, my thirst, my loneliness and boredom and fear were all weapons aimed at my enemy, the world. They didn’t matter a whit to the world, of course, and they tormented me, but I got a gruesome satisfaction from my sufferings. They proved my existence. All my integrity seemed to lie in saying no.
-Susanna Kaysen, ‘Girl Interrupted’
I watched this movie last night for the first time ever. Five minutes into in, I already had so much in common with Winona Ryder’s character that I was getting uncomfortable. It wasn’t a feeling of relief and comfort because you know that someone is telling a story that’s so similar to yours. It made me sick and scared I wanted to turn it off because I almost didn’t want to know how it ends. I did watch the whole thing eventually, and I enjoyed it to some extent.
Monsters are real, ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
— Stephen King
Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
— David Foster Wallace (via paperlover)
Fleurs Du Mal
“You’re right. I’m here but I want to be there. If I’m there they’ll kill me on the street. And I’m a coward, I don’t want to die. I am afraid.”
Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.
— Rumi (via substancem)
