I choose to love you in silence…For in silence I find no rejection, I choose to love you in loneliness…For in loneliness no one owns you but me.
-Rumi
when Charles Bukowski said "and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?"
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist (via suspend)
“And now i’m just another person who had gotten to know you.”
— You’ll say hello when passing through but nothing more.
“I’m finding comfort in our memories, while you seek comfort in someone else.”
— no one else compares to you
“I want to pretend it was never good and we were just young and I was blind. But the truth is I’ve never seen another pair of eyes like yours and my mom still loves you.”
—
Time was never really on our side my love, and for that I’m truly sorry.
you deserved a better ending my love | letters of a lost love.//t.c (via badasssupertash)
I wanted you for so long, but you never seemed to want me, so you don’t get to be mad at me for finding someone who did.
AF Montesino (Letting Go Series #1)
I am forced
to grin
and pretend
that those who
surround me now
will replace your absence
You’re not apart of my world anymore (via mimosaleewrites)
Source: mimosaleewrites
“on the train we swapped seats, you wanted the window and i wanted to look at you.”
— Mahmoud Darwish
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
— Ernest Hemingway
champagneammu
“I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief.”
— C.S. Lewis (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
“I’m beginning to recognise that real happiness isn’t something large and looming on the horizon ahead but something small, numerous and already here. The smile of someone you love. A decent breakfast. The warm sunset. Your little everyday joys all lined up in a row.”
— Beau Taplin