“I fall in love with ideas and fantasies rather than whole beings and then I sit here and wonder why I’m still alone. It’s because I don’t fucking pay attention. I’m too busy thinking about tomorrow that today falls through the cracks.”
(Ryan O’Connell, “I’m Trying to Love You More”)
(Source: thoughtcatalog.com)
I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
—Jonathan Safran Foer (via creatingaquietmind)
We could do ourselves a tremendous favour by letting go of the people who poison our spirit.
—Steve Maraboli (via maddierose)
(via -keepsmiling)
And it’s not “clever lonely” (like Morrissey) or “interesting lonely” (like Radiohead), it’s “lonely, lonely” like the way it feels when you’re being hugged by someone and it somehow makes you sadder.
—Chuck Klosterman (via thesearchforsanctuary)
(via nogreatillusion)
“I had learned early to assume something dark and feral at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn’t find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting it there myself.”
(Tana French, “In the Woods”)
(Source: ancien-t, via queens-and-bees)
I miss you because memory
is a kind editor.
The past is a long scroll and
in it is the story of us,
told with gentle metaphor, and
words that bring
you back and back, even as you
lie there, lying.
—Corey Mesler (via flentes)
(Source: dormio, via jeanetteleblanc)
I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything… I wish, just once, I could say, ‘This. This is good enough.’
—Chuck Palahniuk (via larmoyante)
(Source: larmoyante, via quietallure)
“He was like a song I’d heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.”
(Arthur Golden, “Memoirs of a Geisha”)
“When your mother offers “he loves you as much as he’s capable” she means well. She really does. She’s just trying to help with the delusions. For a moment you want to believe it, to make it your alternate truth.
Does it make you feel any better? That this is the extent of his capabilities? That’s it? That’s all he could come up with?…
In the end, you must not carry your mother’s well-meaning message with you. Throw it away as quickly as you can. Do not accept this level of “love.” Eventually your heart will go on and you will want to find someone to spend your life with. When you do this, do not bring this message with you. It will break you down and keep you in places you should have left. It will make you accept the unacceptable. “As much as he’s capable” is not an appropriate yardstick. Love is meant to be boundless. It is meant to be overwhelming and immeasurable. It would break her heart if she knew. If she realized that her own baggage became yours. Do not tell her that you reject her message, but do reject it. Keep it out of your mind, keep it out of your heart.”
(Hannah Cory, “When Your Faither Is A Sociopath”)
(Source: thoughtcatalog.com)
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