Sometimes I feel like I’m only meant for myself
“You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.”— Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran (via books-n-quotes)
(Source: booksnquotes.com, via anditslove)
“I like to believe that there is enough good in the world to heal all the brokenness that seems to darken the days that go by. I like to think that by people sharing their stories of triumph and tragedy that we slowly start to build camaraderie. No more shame and guilt for going through tough times only love and compassion for those struggling. That’s the world I hope to see.”— m.a.b (via confessionsofadiagnosedcrazy)
(via 20andtired)
“The month was November, the leaves had turned to a brilliant red. What I wanted most was time to absorb something which I already knew I should never forget.”— Vita Sackville-West, from “Note of Another Country: Tuscany,” wr. c. 1926
“Be careful with her. She’s more fragile than she seems.”— Robin Wasserman
(via purplebuddhaquotes)
“Nothing really holds me anymore.”— Simone de Beauvoir, tr. by Justin O’Brien, from “The Woman Destroyed,”
“I have a lot of issues about being around people, I am a loner at heart. Sometimes being around a certain person or group of people can really suck the life out of you, not to say there is anything wrong with that person…some people just don’t belong around one another.”— Chelsea Wolfe, from an interview featured in Sabbacultcha c. April 2012
“November night. Brief note to self: Time to take myself in hand. To build into myself, to give myself backbone, however much I fail.”— Sylvia Plath, from a journal entry featured in “The Unabridged Journals,”
