one day you think: I want to die. and then you think, very quietly: actually. actually. I think I want a coffee. a nap. a sandwich. a book. and I want to die turns day by day into want to go home, I want to walk in the woods, I want to see my friend, I want to sit in the sun, I want a cleaner kitchen, I want a better job, I want to live somewhere else. I want to live.
- via duckbunny
“I couldn’t be with people and I didn’t want to be alone.”
— Marian Keyes
“I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can’t quite make out what it is. It takes time.”
— Charles Bukowski
“Staying quiet doesn’t mean I have nothing to say, it means I don’t think you’re ready to hear my thoughts.”
— Unknown
“I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.”
— Sebastian Faulks
“You think attention is love, and that’s why you suffer so deeply.”
— Unknown
“You want to see people as extremes. Bad or good, trustworthy or not. I understand. It’s easier that way. But that isn’t how people work.”
— Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark
“I always felt like I saw things differently. Saw things other people didn’t.”
— Lois Lowry, The Giver
“Brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared. It means you go on even though you’re scared.”
— Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
“Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world. Sometimes my silence is saying, I don’t know how to speak to you. I don’t know what you’re thinking. Talk to me. Tell me everything you’ve ever said. All the words. Starting from the very first one.”
— Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love
