We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

(Source: blua)

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

(Source: southernwriter)

She refused to be bored, chiefly because she wasn’t boring.

(Source: dailylove-notes)

I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.

(Source: accidentalism)

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

(Source: heyimcarol)

Don’t attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you’re lonely. Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best you can do is know yourself; know what you want.

(Source: heyimcarol)

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

(Source: their-first-lines)

The book rested on her lap, like a doorway.

(Source: clavicola)

Cute idea.

(Source: whereisthecoool)

Changing is what people do when they have no options left.

(Source: qmsd)

Too many guys think I’m a concept, or I complete them, or I’m gonna make them alive. But I’m just a fucked-up girl who’s lookin’ for my own peace of mind.

(Source: weepling)

Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.

(Source: evikovacs)

(Source: merle1805)

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

(Source: qmsd)