"Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself."
"And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can’t ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it’s already happened."
by Douglas Coupland (via black-stilletos)
(Source: danseurs)
"And I began to let him go. Hour by hour. Days into months. It was a physical sensation, like letting out the string of a kite. Except that the string was coming from my center."
by You Better Not Cry, Augusten Burroughs (via black-stilletos)
"There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable."
by C.S. Lewis (via natashakills)
(Source: quote-book)
"A beautiful woman is a beautiful woman, but a beautiful woman with a brain is an absolutely lethal combination."
by Prabal Gurung (via natashakills)
"We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all."
by Eleanor Roosevelt (via black-stilletos)
(Source: thehipsterkids)
"I tell her how isolated I feel and how lonely I am and hungry and tired and she says oh."
by James Simon Kunen, The Strawberry Statement (via larmoyante)
(Source: larmoyante)
"Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing."
by Rachel Remen (via mrsbukowski)
(Source: onlinecounsellingcollege)
"I desire all the things which will destroy me in the end."
by Sylvia Plath (via myprivateopera)
"If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
by The most epic and emotional, yet utterly underestimated, quote uttered by one Sirius Orion Black. (via marauders4evr)
