I Have Survived. I Am Here. Confused, Screwed Up, But Here.

She didn’t need a protector or a rescuer. But she did need him.

Alexandra Bracken, Passenger (via the-book-diaries)

You care and it’s all over the place.

Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait In Letters (via the-book-diaries)

have y’all ever had communion bread that was just so….nasty? like i know we have to suffer as christians, but do we really need to have whole wheat bread as the body of christ?

This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don’t give up.

Cormac McCarthy, The Road (via the-book-diaries)

Había aprendido que si escuchabas intensa y largamente, muchas personas te dirían más de lo que ellas pensaban que sabían.

El ladrón del tiempo, Terry Pratchett. (via date-prisa-estamos-leyendo)

Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.

Neil Gaiman, The Sandman (via the-book-diaries)

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (via the-book-diaries)

Fall in love with someone who feels like the warmth of the sun on a cold January morning, but soothes your heart like the cool waters of the sea on the hottest day of June.

Nikita Gill (via meanwhilepoetry)

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPah8hxFTaM)

If you want to be happy, you have to be happy on purpose. When you wake up, you can’t just wait to see what kind of day you’ll have. You have to decide what kind of day you’ll have.

Joel Osteen (via themotivationjournals)