“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”
—Louise Erdrich (The Painted Drum)
April 2011
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“Giant proclamations are all very well, but our love is louder than words.”
—Bloc Party (via quote-book)
“I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.”
—Audrey Hepburn (via kari-shma)
“what lies beneath my chest is an impeccable nuisance”
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“There’s always going to be bad stuff out there. But here’s the amazing thing — light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can’t stick the dark into the light.”
—Jodi Picoult (Change of Heart)
You know who you are...
I’m not going anywhere. You have me until you tell me you don’t want me anymore. I’ll be waiting…my heart is on reserve.
“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”
—Paulo Coelho (via kari-shma)
Last night, things were better. You told me you loved me and that it’s going to be hard, but it’ll be better together. We kissed. You smiled. I woke up.
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