“There are two types of people you will meet in your life. One will run a finger down the index of who you are and jump straight to the parts of you that peak their interest. The other will take his or her time reading through every one of your chapters and maybe unfold corners of you that inspired them most. You will meet these two people; it is a given. It is the third that you’ll never see coming. That one person who not only finishes your sentences, but keeps the book.”

“We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it’s absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.”

Views from Mountain Hostel, Gimmelwald, Switzerland. ( via )

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[text ID: Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence.]

“Once someone touched my jaw so softly I cried. Once someone held my hand so lightly I wept —”