We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?
—Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (via larmoyante)
You’re so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.
—Tracy Chevalier, Girl with a Pearl Earring (via larmoyante)
you are a horse running alone
and he tries to tame you
compares you to an impossible highway
to a burning house
says you are blinding him
that he could never leave you
forget you
want anything but you
you dizzy him, you are unbearable
every woman before or after you
is doused in your name
you fill his mouth
his teeth ache with memory of taste
his body just a long shadow seeking yours
but you are always too intense
frightening in the way you want him
unashamed and sacrificial
he tells you that no man can live up to the one who
lives in your head
and you tried to change didn’t you?
closed your mouth more
tried to be softer
prettier
less volatile, less awake
but even when sleeping you could feel
him travelling away from you in his dreams
so what did you want to do love
split his head open?
you can’t make homes out of human beings
someone should have already told you that
and if he wants to leave
then let him leave
you are terrifying
and strange and beautiful
something not everyone knows how to love.
—Warsan Shire, “for women who are ‘difficult’ to love” (via larmoyante)
My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.
—Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker (via larmoyante)
Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
—Markus Zusak, I am the Messenger (via larmoyante)
In his arms, I slowly unfolded like a love note read in secret.
—Jill S. Alexander, Paradise (via larmoyante)
Falling in love with yourself is as beautiful as any experience of love is. It’s learning to laugh at your awkward tendencies and smile at all your quirky habits. It’s learning to be grateful for the many sides you have – confident, crazy, shy, sexy, nerdy, angry, weird, and all the rest of them. It is realizing that you’re one of a kind and that you deserve to give the world the best person you can be. Falling in love with yourself is being happy in your life and knowing that in this one moment in time, you’re beautiful simply because you are you.
—Kovie Biakolo, Falling In Love With Yourself (via larmoyante)
I learned that night that love is never as ferocious as when you think it is going to leave you.
—Anita Shreve, The Weight of Water (via larmoyante)
No, I don’t think I will kiss you, although you need kissing, badly. That’s what’s wrong with you. You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.
—Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind (via larmoyante)
Red wine, a bath, and reading<3
