I was afraid to be alone, and now I’m scared that’s how I like to be.
— Azure Ray, November
Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I’m gazing at a distant star. It’s dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn’t even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.
— Haruki Murakami
What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart.
— Maya Angelou
“Let my solitude not destroy me. Let my solitude keep me company. Give me the courage to face myself.”— Clarice Lispector, tr. by Johnny Lorenz, Um Sopro de Vida
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I yearn to say it all yet I wish to stay silent.
“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”— A.A. Milne (via quotemadness)
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