“let me think clearly and brightly; let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences, let me someday see who I am” -Sylvia Plath

Baby still holds your hand but she don’t feel the same.
When they ask her who she’s living for, I’m tellin’ you, she don’t drop your name. (Dancing Under Red Skies, Shadows and Dust)

I was always ashamed to take. So I give. It was not a virtue. It was a disguise. -Anäis Nin

“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. -Anäis Nin

“if there’s any magic in this world…it must be in the attempt of understanding someone” (Before Sunrise)

Is life only a lesson if it hurts (Malay, Dermot Kennedy)

“you cannot make everyone think and feel as deeply as you do. this is your tragedy…because you understand them and they do not understand you” -Daniel Saint

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people, to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole.” -Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

who are you wishing was me? -DK

“one foot in a fairytale, the other in the abyss” -Paulo Coelho

“we always think that time is still, and then it ends”

“I let you into my world, then you became it”

i would lie awake
and pray
you don’t lie awake for me (Gloria, Lumineers)

the smell of this room brings my mind to you -$18, FC

how do you get so empty? who takes it out of you? -Ray Bradbury

“it is better to be alone than to be with someone who can’t see who you are” -E. Lockhart

“so when i go, just know, it kills me to leave” -DK

“i’d ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you. And i did”

“everything i’ve ever let go has claw marks on it”

wish i could show you what safe is, wish i could tell you to breathe

“you want me to sit beside you in the dark”

“teach me how to see the way you see me”

i’m so filled with you i’m spilling over

“That then, we will understand how love isn’t about beautiful beginnings and happy endings. That sometimes, it happens in betweens”

you can run around infinite in my head

sometimes you think you wanna disappear, but all you really want is to be found

I’m trying hard not to act how I feel

“it’s my own fault. it’s about time i figured out i can’t ask people to keep me found”

“paralysis of choice”

“drowning in these dreams of mine, wondering if i’m worth your thoughts”

“when even my love isn’t valued i think the only answer is to love even harder”

“i saw you run in my dream and i never moved my feet”

“whatever causes night in your soul may leave stars”

it’s hard to get to heaven with my head in my hands

tell me when you hear my heart stop

“come join me in the clouds”

can you feel it too
when I am touching you

where do you go when you close your eyes

what’s done is done isn’t enough to describe

speak a language of love, like you know what it means

i can’t keep splitting my chest open just because you don’t believe me when i say my heart isn’t beating. to keep living is to bite off more than i can chew. can you hear me choking?

“there is a moment when you’re a teenage girl when you don’t belong to anybody…you see the world in such a strange and intense and creative way in that brief time when you truly believe you don’t belong to anyone. when you are most likely to be murdered. when abuse cannot touch your personhood. the way i saw the world then was what i wanted to capture in art.”

i cannot seem to want a love that does not engulf me. someone once told me that when you’ve tasted fire, you ache for it, no matter how badly it burned your tongue. “they weren’t wrong.”

if i could have done it all again, i would have loved you better. but i could not have loved you more. -ilovedyouinallthewaysthaticould