“I Didn’t Know What To Call It, What Was Happening Between Us, But I Liked It. It Felt Silly And

That’s all I want. Just you and me. Always.

Lauren Oliver

“Too often, the only escape is sleep.”

— Charles Bukowski

I had a sense of preparation for a love to come. Like the extension of canopies, the unrolling of ceremonial carpets, as if I must first create a marvelous world in which to house it, in which to receive adequately this guest of honor.

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume One 1931-1934, Anaïs Nin

“I am both worse and better than you thought.”

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath

And I wonder, when I sing along with you... if everything could ever feel this real forever... if anything could ever be this good again...

Foo Fighters' "Everlong" (1997)

“And if you call me at 4 am, too sad to even say hello, I will listen to your silence until you fall asleep.”

— Unknown

“But when I make her laugh, swear it cures my depressing thoughts”

-the weeknd; here we go… again ft. tyler, the creator

Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

“I think this is what we all want to hear: That we are not alone in hitting the bottom, and that it is possible to come out of that place courageous, beautiful, and strong.”

— Anna White

when kafka said ‘you wouldn’t believe the kind of person I could become if you wanted it’ and when brontë said ‘if you ever looked at me with what I know is in you, I would be your slave’ and when Sartre said ‘if I’ve got to suffer it may as well be at your hands’