“It is not merely a complicated thing, to be broken and left shattered, to hold on and break gently, to give yourself a chance, and open it once again, to people who also needs affection.”— Chuck Akot, “Affection.”
I heard something the other day that I had never really thought about before. Someone mentioned to me that whenever you catch yourself missing someone who left your life, you should remind yourself that them not being part of your present is a choice they make every day. They wake up and decide to maintain the silence. They’re indifferent as to whether the space between you gets larger. And that in itself is pretty powerful closure.
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“I know that feeling. You have to do something. You have to change something radically, because you can’t stay like you are for another second, or you’re going to explode.”— Jennifer Echols, Forget You
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“There’s a corner of my heart that is yours. And I don’t mean for now, or until I’ve found somebody else, I mean forever. I mean to say that whether I fall in love a thousand times over or once or never again, there’ll always be a small quiet place in my heart that belongs only to you.”— Beau Taplin
my friend said that whenever she has a bad feeling about her body/appearance, she asks herself “who profits off of this emotion?” and i really love how simple and incisive that is
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“I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.”
- Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil
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“I’m… having one of those honeyed afternoons when I don’t know who I am.”— Catie Rosemurgy, “Neighbor: Miss Peach’s Body Didn’t Turn Out Right,” The Stranger Manual
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