“My solitude is sacred. I won’t let anyone take it from me anymore—”— Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, from “Rien ne va Plus,”
“I want to calm down, to rest, to outlive this nonsense.”— Anne Sexton, from a letter to Dennis Farrell written c. June 1962
(via violentwavesofemotion)
Tell me if you ever cared,
if a single thought
for me was spared.
Tell me when you lie in bed,
do you think of something
I once said.
Tell me if you hurt at all,
when someone says
my name with yours.
It may have been so long ago,
but I would give
the world to know.
Lang Leav
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
Jorge Luis BorgesMiss someone until they come back, or until you come back, until their absence in your life becomes something to be avoided at all costs. Miss them until you don’t have to anymore, until you’re reunited in your favorite booth in your favorite restaurant ordering your favorite meal, miss them until it feels like you never left. Or miss them until you can’t anymore, until the things you miss are identified and cataloged as things and not a person, until you figure out that easy company and long talks and unblinking, all-knowing eye contact will find you again the way they found you the first time. Miss someone until you don’t.
Stephanie Georgopulus, How To Miss Someone (via books-n-quotes)If they were meant to be in your life, nothing could ever make them leave. If they weren’t, nothing in the world could make them stay.
Lang Leav (via asking-jude)I hope you find someone you can’t live without. I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it’s like to have to try and live without them.
Kiera Cass, The Selection (via books-n-quotes)I wanted to be loved more
than I wanted to be
alive. For so longI thought not to be
loved is good but to be loved
is to be good.All those years, convinced — surely
I must be bad, the way
you keep punishing me.— Leila Chatti, from “Faulty,” published in Prairie Schooner
Try this for a couple of weeks and see how it changes your reality: Whatever you think people are withholding from you - praise, appreciation, assistance, loving care, and so on - give it to them. You don’t have it? Just act as if you had it, and it will come. Then, soon after you start giving, you will start receiving. You cannot receive what you don’t give.
Eckhart Tolle (via lazyyogi)Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the words ‘for ever.’ But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you know they don’t like doing it.
Marian KeyesBeing alone has nothing to do with how many people are around.
Richard Yates, Revolutionary RoadIn my head I know I’ve been in love before, but it doesn’t feel like it. Being in love with you is better than the first time. It feels like the first time and the last time and the only time all at once.
Nicola Yoon, Everything, EverythingHe loved her, he loved her, and until he’d loved her she had never minded being alone.
Truman Capote, Summer Crossing