I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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| — | D.H. Lawrence (via libraryland) (via quote-book) |
But mostly, I cried because my life had been going full speed for so long and now it had just stopped, like running right into a big brick wall, knocking the wind and the fight right out of me. And I didn’t know if I ever even wanted to get up and start breathing again.
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| — | Dreamland by Sarah Dessen (via poeticheartache) |
You never come back, not all the way. Always there is an odd distance between you and the people you love and the people you meet, a barrier thin as the glass of a mirror, you never come all the way out of the mirror; you stand, for the rest of your life, with one foot in this world and no one in another, where everything is upside down and backward and sad.
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| — | Mary Hornbacher (via gatekeeper) (via maddieness) |
To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget.
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| — | Arundhati Roy (via thoughtsdetained) (via quote-book) (via lovebot) |
Some things you’ll never know, and some things you’ll wish you never knew.
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| — | Eric Williams (via kari-shma) (via quote-book) |
The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we’re passing one another without a look of recognition.
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| — | Henry Miller (via colporteur) (via quote-book) |
