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—Richard Siken

I had a dream about you

“As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.”

—Charles Baudelaire

“When you dance to your own rhythm, people may not understand you; they may even hate you. But mostly they’ll wish they had the courage to do the same.”

—Sue Fitzmaurice

“The things that we love tell us what we are.”

—Thomas Aquinas

“Some people just can never understand how much they really mean to you.”

“Stay single until someone actually complements your life in a way that makes it better not to be single. If not, it’s not worth it.”

“I demand unconditional love and complete freedom. That is why I am terrible.”

—Tomaz Salamun

“And a mind as fragile as a heart.”

—John Koethe

“I find the mystery of passion the most beautiful thing in the world.”

—Gustave Flaubert

from a notebook entry written c. January 1840

“The name of a person you love is more than language.”

—Tennessee Williams

“If a girl starts out all casual with a guy and she doesn’t tell him that she wants a relationship, it will never become a relationship. If you give the guy the impression that casual is okay with you, that’s all he’ll ever want. Be straight with him from the start. If he gets scared and runs away, he wasn’t right for you.”

—Susane Colasanti

Speak up or I'm gonna swoop in lol

“Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.”

—Whitney Otto

Oh, Ex and I still love each other.

“She was a lady of beautiful whispers. She hardly spoke, she only whispered. Last time I heard her whisper she said that the moon is magical. She said that its magic does not need proof. I believed her.”

—Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius

“What a Day!”

—Richard Siken

“Her body on fire with spring’s rebellion,”

—Miklós Radnóti

—Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility

“But then it passed, as all things do.”

—Khaled Hosseini

“Standing alone is better than standing with someone who doesn’t value you.”

“Stop thinking so much. You’re breaking your own heart.”

“Stand up for what you believe in - even if it means standing alone.”

—Kim Hanks

“Nothing kills love faster than secrets.”

—Cornelia Funke

“We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.”

—Andrea Gibson

buying a different snack than usual at the store is one of the bravest and most dangerous things a girl can do

Don't be a pussy.

—Franz Kafka

Letters to Felice‎

June 30, 1919,

The Diaries Of Franz Kafka, 1914-1923

“Je suis tombé amoureux de la mort, ma chère. Bien que j'aimerais que vous soyez, l'obscurité ne peut pas embrasser la lumière. Mais je peux dire au revoir à un bisou. Parce que je suis désolé de le dire, mais je ferais une belle reine de l'enfer.