May 2013
April 2013
The relationship you have with the world is just like any other relationship....
– I Wrote This For You: The World Loves You Too (via kari-shma)
March 2013
People always say that when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But...
– “Handle with Care” by Jodi Picoult (via kari-shma)
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung...
– C.S. Lewis (via kari-shma)
February 2013
almost exactly 4 years ago, I wrote this:
i am not
beautiful, modelesque, feminine, glamorous, curvaceous, a natural beauty, graceful, a smooth-talker, a social butterfly, the type of girl that turns heads when she walks into a room.
i am comfortable, scrubby, laidback, tattooed, a beer drinker, clumsy, a comic book nerd, sometimes awkward, a little bit shy, the kind of girl that blends in as one of the boys.
i would rather wear my...
love, my dear, is a fickle thing.
January 2013
There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do...
– Neil Gaiman (via kari-shma)
You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived...
– Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green (via quote-book)
December 2012
She was gone, and all that was left was the space you’d grown around her, like a...
– Nicole Krauss, The History of Love (via sellyourcleverness)
We accept the love we think we deserve.
– Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower (via catchingelephants)
In ‘love’ one has found, at last, a haven from aloneness.
– Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving (via greetingsimabeing)
The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.
– Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin (via helplesslyamazed)
I really don’t know what ‘I love you’ means. I think it means ‘Don’t leave me...
– Neil Gaiman (via align)
I love you crookedly because my heart’s been unhinged from birth. The doctors...
– Mathias Malzieu, The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart (via helplesslyamazed)
I missed him. Love, I realized, was something your spine memorized. There was...
– Lorrie Morre, Anagrams (via helplesslyamazed)
It is a risk to love.
What if it doesn’t work out?
Ah, but what if it does.
– Peter McWilliams (via quote-book)
If a thing loves, it is infinite.
– William Blake (via girlwithoutwings)
It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is...
– “Fragile Things” by Neil Gaiman (via kari-shma)
I am not going to wait. I will live each present moment, filling it to the brim...
– Monsignor John Walsh | via berrynice (via quote-book)
You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
– “Stardust ” by Neil Gaiman (via kari-shma)
It’s one thing to fall in love. It’s another to feel someone else falling in...
– David Levithan (Every Day)
November 2012
Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.
– Mike Murdock (via kari-shma)
And no matter what anybody says about grief and about time healing all wounds,...
– Tiffanie DeBartolo (via kari-shma)
I love you crookedly because my heart’s been unhinged from birth. The doctors...
– Mathias Malzieu, The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart (via helplesslyamazed)
October 2012
If we listened to our intellect we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a...
– Ray Bradbury (via kari-shma)
Part of me believes that love is more valuable when you have to work for it.
– Augusten Burroughs (via kari-shma)
September 2012
In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you...
– Siddharta Gautama (via Swanfeather Songs)
When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to...
– Paulo Coelho (via kari-shma)
Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is...
– Chuck Palahniuk (via quote-book)
We loved with a love that was more than love.
– Edgar Allan Poe (via kari-shma)
Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There’s only so much...
– Jodi Picoult, House Rules (via creatingaquietmind)