June 2013
This haze is crazy.
“I don’t get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.”
—Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now (via larmoyante)
“One of the cruellest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.”
—Douglas Coupling (via larmoyante)
“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
—Fydor Dostoevsky (via seabois)
“Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.”
—Sigmund Freud (via psych-facts)
“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
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“It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.”
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My grandpa has Alzheimer’s so he has no idea who my grandma is but everyday for the last three or four months he brings her in flowers from their garden and asks her to run away with him and be his wife and everyday she says she already is and everyday the smile my grandpa gets on his face is the most beautiful heartfelt thing I have ever seen.
“What’s the point of living if you’re going to hate the world? Guard your heart if you have to, but don’t shut it away.”
—Neal Shusterman, Bruiser (via simply-quotes)