“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known.”— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“To get over the past you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you revisit it, analyze it, regret it, or sweat it… it’s over. It can hurt you no more.”— Mandy Hale
“I think it’s important to realize you can miss something, but not want it back.”— Paulo Coelho
“Deep in my heart I know I am a loner. I have tried to blend in with the world or be more sociable, but the more people I meet the more disappointed I am. So I’ve learned to enjoy myself, my family, and a few good friends.”— Steven Aitchison
I hurt you and I hoped you would do hurtful things to me because I was so used to love being painful. You refused to do these things to me because you cared for me too much until finally you broke. Forgive me, my love. Pain was all I knew then, all I was comfortable with. There are so many times I looked at your kindness with suspicion, confused the melodies of your gentle words for future harm. I have known predators so long that I didn’t see an honest love for what it was. That it looked like this. That it looks like you.
- Nikita Gill, A Text I Never Sent
“I won’t say it wasn’t meant to be, because it was. We were. Only for a short while, maybe. But we were.”— Unknown
“Once you lose someone, it is never exactly the same person who comes back.”— Sharon Olds
“It’s so hard to leave - until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”— John Green // Paper Towns
If nothing else, one day you can look someone straight in the eyes and say ‘But I lived through it. And it made me who I am today.’- Iain Thomas (via thoughtkick)
Silence is the most powerful scream- Unknown (via thoughtkick)