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.