“Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back.”
— Sharon Olds
“I love you—I do—but I am afraid of making that love too important. Because you’re always going to leave me. We can’t deny it. You’re always going to leave.”
— David Levithan
“People will kill you over time, and how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like ‘be realistic.’”
— Dylan Moran
“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.”
— Neil Gaiman
#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
“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.”
— Muhammad Ali
“If we are the same person before and after we love, that means we haven’t loved enough.”
— Elif Shafak