i was strong.

"I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me."

Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

potential love.

Have you ever felt a potential love for someone?
Like, you don’t actually love them and you know you don’t, but you know you could. You realise that you could easily fall in love with them. It’s almost like the bud of a flower, ready to blossom but it’s just not quite there yet. And you like them a lot, you really do. You think about them often, but you don’t love them. You could, though. You know you could.

(tumblr post via eternallyclassic)

loneliest.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

save yourself.

You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

- Robert Jordan

this is your birth.

For a star to be born, there is one thing that must happen: a gaseous nebula must collapse.

So collapse.
Crumble.
This is not your destruction.

This is your birth.

1 am.

"It’s 1 am and let me tell you what a perfect hour it is to miss you so much it physically hurts my chest."

- Mitch Welling, Flatsound

time was passing.

"Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.
I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you."

- Jonathan Safran Foer

over and over.

"Y. That perfect letter. The wishbone, fork in the road, empty wineglass. The question we ask over and over."

- Marjorie Celona

ghost.

"Once you lose someone, it is never exactly the same person who comes back."

- Sharon Olds, Satan Says

the faces.

"The Japanese say you have three faces. The first face, you show to the world. The second face, you show to your close friends, and your family. The third face, you never show anyone. It is the truest reflection of who you are."

the cure.

"All this time
I drank you like the cure when maybe
you were the poison."

Clementine von Radics

the saddest.

"The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when sad tries to bite its lip and not cry and smile and go, “No, I’m happy for you?” That’s when it’s really sad."

John Mayer

if lost.

I don’t want to be
your entire world, no.
I would be happy
just to be your morning coffee,
your hanging car keys,
your wallet.

Something seemingly
insignificant,
but if lost throws off
your entire day.

thanks.

"…throw roses into the abyss and say: ‘Here is my thanks to the monster who didn’t succeed in swallowing me alive.’ "

Friedrich Nietzsche

platform sneakers

even lovers drown

A mermaid found a swimming lad,

Picked him up for her own,

Pressed her body to his body,

Laughed; and plunging down

Forgot in cruel happiness

That even lovers drown.

William Butler Yeats

easiest thing

"It is so hard to leave - until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world."

- John Green, Paper Towns.

places

“How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you. You leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences, like rags and shreds of your very life.”

- Katherine Mansfield

i think not.

"There is a mysterious force which draws together those who constantly think of each other. Fools call it 'coincidence.'"

- Cecil B. DeMille

cutouts.