libraryoflanie

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“thank you for showing me not all hands are harmful and violent but instead they can be gentle, loving caresses. thank you for showing me that love doesn’t have to hurt and instead is the most beautiful, fulfilling feeling - it feels like home… you feel like home.”

Libraryoflanie

[libraryoflanie]

“BE GENTLE WITH ME

what you see here

is all that refused

to finish breaking”

Isaiah Quinn, from his book “Lighthouse” (@_isaiahquinn on instagram)

[libraryoflanie]

“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”

Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

[libraryoflanie]

please help me, save me,

from my mind

a place of torture,

no where kind.

i try so hard to heal inside

but it won’t let me,

i’m terrified.

unknown

[libraryoflanie]

“How can I ask anyone to love me when all I do is beg to be left alone?”

Fiona Apple, left alone

[libraryoflanie]

“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”

Carl Sagan, Cosmos

[libraryoflanie]

“Even the strongest souls gets exhausted”

Bianca Sparacino, A Gentle Reminder

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“I hope you have the courage to understand yourself, fundamentally — to open up the deepest, darkest parts of your mind, to unhinge your rib cage revealing the gritty parts of your soul, the parts no one else claps for, and I hope you have the courage to clean them out.”

Bianca Sparacino, A Gentle Reminder

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“At the end of the day, I want to be proud of the way I loved, I want to be proud of the way I placed my heart into the hands of others. I want to be proud of the way I chose vulnerability, of the way I chose tenderness; how I never stopped choosing it no matter what my soul experienced at the hands of being the kind of human being who loved deeply in this world.”

Bianca Sparacino, A Gentle Reminder

[libraryoflanie]

“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.”

Edvard Munch

[libraryoflanie]

“I still love the people I’ve loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them.”

Uma Thurman

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“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”

L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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“You do not know how fast you have been running, how hard you have been working, how truly exhausted you are, until someone stands behind you and says, “It’s OK, you can fall down now. I’ll catch you.”

Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

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“So many broken children living in grown bodies mimicking adult lives.”

Ijeoma Umebinyuo

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“I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.”

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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"Before I die, I want to be somebody's favourite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe."

Andrea Gibson

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"And when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. What do you call it, freedom or loneliness?"

Charles Bukowski