“Loving Me Isn’t Easy, I Have Sharp Edges, I Have Missing Parts.”

“I am practicing being kind instead of right.”

— Matthew Quick 

اسْتِنارة

To be enlightened; Look not with the eyes that light can blind. But subtly, with the heart. It shall heal the soul.

“I don’t know how to be loved. I don’t know how to love.”

— Daul Kim, from I Like to Fork Myself

“There will be dozens of people who will take your breath away, but the one who reminds you to breathe is the one you should keep.”

— Anonymous 

الطريق إلى النصر وحيد

The path to victory is a lonely one

"We demand closure as though our lives were put together as neatly as novels, but the fact of the matter is they're not. In real life, relationships are messy and poorly written, ending too early or too late, and sometimes in the middle of a sentence."

—Beau Taplin, Neatly As Novels

Unknown // Carole Anne Trisler

Palestinian women near the village of Battir, Bethlehem.

“The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn’t exist at all. Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so.”

— Siegfried Sassoon 

“Scar tissue has no character. It’s not like skin. It doesn’t show age or illness or pallor or tan. It has no pores, no hair, no wrinkles. It’s like a slip cover. It shields and disguises what’s beneath. That’s why we grow it; we have something to hide.”

— Susanna Kaysen