#*prose

[stay-close]

Don’t give them a taste of their own medicine. They already know what it tastes like. Give them a taste of your own medicine. If they lied, let your medicine be honesty. If they played with your emotions, let your medicine be maturity. Don’t be afraid to be yourself, even if it means removing yourself from lives that you want to be in. You are, no doubt, worthy of being valued for who you are. So be who you are.

Najwa Zebian

[mournfulroses]

Jeanette Winterson, from "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal," publ. in 2011

[thoughtkick]

Kiss me like you don’t need air. Hold me like you can’t let go. Love me like you’d die without me.

Sarah Doughty

[funkytunaaa]

This is very sad and very true at the same time.

“So much of what we learn about love is taught to us by people who never really loved us.”

— r.h. Sin

[perfectfeelings]

There’s a special place in my heart for the ones who were with me at my lowest and still loved me when I wasn‘t very loveable.

Unknown

[quotefeeling]

We don’t realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone.

Cecelia Ahern

[thehopefulquotes]

Forgive me if I don’t talk much at times. It’s loud enough in my head.

Unknown

[thoughtcascades]

Me at 18: don't tell me what to do Me at 27: I'm totally open for suggestions

[becomingvecna]

— David Cronenberg, Consumed

[lucidloving]

@roach-works // Melissa Broder, "Problem Area" // Mary Oliver, "The Return" // @annavonsyfert // Koyoharu Gotouge, Demon Slayer // Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance // David Levithan, How They Met and Other Stories // Tennessee Williams, Notebooks

[usefulquotes7]

[ivynightshade]

fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s ‘i am an observer, but not by choice.’

[text id: my fist has always been clenched around the handle of an invisible suitcase. / i am always ready to leave. / there is not a single room in this world where i belong.]

[mournfulroses]

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, from  "Women who Run with the Wolves," originally published c. 1992

[thoughtkick]

How beautiful is it that someone could make your heart beat so fast when you don't want it to beat at all.

Unknown

[funkytunaaa]

Used to be like this when I was a kid

“Imagine being with someone where it’s safe enough to just talk for hours about your fears and the things you’re ashamed of … Imagine …”

— Unknown