“People Will Kill You Over Time, And How They’ll Kill You Is With Tiny, Harmless Phrases, Like ‘be

“I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer 

“In my memory, it doesn’t end. We just stay there, looking at each other, forever.”

— John Green

“To Allah do we turn our hopes.” — Quran (9:59)

#tea

mentally, i’m in the back of a library sipping tea and re-reading my favorite books under the soft light of a candle

“Hurt people hurt people. That’s how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future.”

— Yehuda Berg 

“Your body is the house you grew up in. How dare you try to burn it to the ground.”

— Sierra Demulder 

“If we’re going to talk, then let’s talk. Forget about what is polite or proper and delve right into what is sincere and honest. Lead me down through the labyrinth of your true, spectacular self. I am not interested in pleasantries. If you want a conversation, then let’s get lost.”

— Beau Taplin 

“It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.”

— Jim Morrison 

“I am practicing being kind instead of right.”

— Matthew Quick