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Good read on how sometimes something becomes too real too fast…..I need! To learn! To stop running from it!
Source: thebeliever.net
“I knew when I said I love you that I was inventing a new alphabet for a city where no one could read”
— Nizar Qabbani, Between Us
“You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”
— Sam Keen
I do not know the name of the feeling that I have for you. But it is a special tenderness, something I have never felt until now, not for anyone.
— Gustave Flaubert in correspondence with George Sand; Croisset, 12 November 1866, Monday night, from Selected Letters
[A white fortune cookie paper with black text on the front and an icon of a bee. It reads: Your personality is fueled by the fascination you feel for life.]
“I like missing you so hard because it makes me feel strongly that you are not a dream, you are real, you are living, and I'll meet you again.”
- Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Nelson Algren featured in Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren
Li-Young Lee, from I Loved You Before I Was Born, The Undressing: Poems
the first person who decided to blow a kiss had the right idea; but the first person who decided to catch it????? definitely had the right idea
"i'm sending you my love even as you leave because i'll love you wherever you are" -> "your love has found it's way to me and now it's in safe hands"
When I told you we had to end it, that we had to go on our own separate paths, I wanted you to say no. I wanted you to tell me you would never let me go. I wanted you to say that you couldn’t imagine living life without me, that you would never love anyone as much as you loved me, even if it sounds a little selfish. I wanted you to fight for me, to stop me from leaving. But all you said was, “I’ve been thinking the same thing for a while now.”