“Because when you said, let’s still be friends, I was stupid enough to think it was genuine.”
— Excerpt from a Book I’ll Never Write
“i like your personality!” thanks! It’s a complete copy of others traits I picked up along the way to fill the empty shell of the person I am!
“I think I fall in love a little bit with anyone who shows me their soul… I appreciate rawness so much.”
— Emery Allen (via quotemadness)
call me selfish
“I’ll give anything to be with you again.”
— Please don’t forget me.
“seeing you with her, is the most heartbreaking thing ever… that could have been me, but like everything else in my life, i messed it up”
— why do i do this to myself
The pain is worst when you have no right to feel it.
F. Scott Fitzgerald / More Than Just a House
alana champion for galore magazine by chuck grant
“Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do to the world.”
— Lorrie Moore
“I am a rotating disappointment, a peaceful tune until the record scrape.”
“The clock is a more complicated machine than the gun, and certainly the knife, but they all have the same final trick.”
From the Goddess Girl series. Who doesn’t love Persephone? Preorder the book here
your song is stuck in my
head, but I can't remember
the lyrics, we've been driving
apart the division of breaths
that only point south & though
I'll stay awake to dream of
you, if the wind blew too
hard, I would scatter into
pieces -
teach me how to stay
The flaw in having empathy is how hypersensitive you are to your emotions. It’s profound when you meet someone who seems to come to you with understanding. Naturally, you are drawn to people who are damaged or who embody someone of genuine character. Yet experience has taught you how abrupt relations and communications can be severed. Be that as it may, you can’t help but feel hopeful and willing to confide in this similar soul. They will expose their wounds to you and you won’t judge them for it. They will tell you secrets and make you feel special. You’ll begin to dream of being even closer to them. You’ll even go out of your way out of the true passion in your heart to find ways to make them smile. To simply grow a deeper connection. But the sad part is how sudden it can all end. And it seriously makes you question what is wrong with yourself. Your mind unravels as your heart falls apart. And you look back at everything ever said and it reveals to you how words can be so empty. Because if you were so special in their eyes then how could they just vanish. Or be so oblivious to the damage of being spurned with silence. This just further reinforces your caution and doubt in ever trying to reach out to anyone else. It’s like your stuck in this neverending cycle of attachment and pain. And it just makes you completely depressed and cynical when you think about it.
“I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.”
— Nan Goldin



