Who we are is constantly evolving

I've become one of those people who prowl around at night in their cars. God, I am the town's Boo Radley, just like in To Kill A Mockingbird.

Breakups, I’ve heard, are supposed to be just that. Breaks. Hard, clean breaks. No talking, no seeing, no touching … keep your hands to yourself. The relationship is over. Half the people I know move after a huge breakup, and frankly that makes perfect sense to me. Again, for the most part, we kind of know this. You’re not supposed to sleep with the guy who just broke your heart a week ago. Fine. But what are we supposed to do instead? How are we going to fill our time if we’re not trying to win him back (while we keep trying to convince our friends that we’re really not), huh?
Fine. Next time I’m in this situation I’ll cry. Stay in bed and wail. Go to the gym if I can. Call all my friends and burden them with my misery. Sleep too much. Cry some more. See my therapist more often. Get a puppy. Do whatever I have to so eventually I can move on.

—He’s Just Not That Into You by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo (via lostinthesounds)

I don’t know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.

—Edith Wharton (via simply-quotes)

And let me tell you, that’s the good news, because wasting time with the wrong person is just time wasted. And when you do move on and find your right person, believe me, you’re not going to wish you had gotten to spend more time with Stinky the Time-Waster or Freddy Can’t-Remember-to-Call.

—He’s Just Not That Into You by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo (via lostinthesounds)

If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you’ll end up miserable.

—Brandon Sanderson (The Hero of Ages)

(Source: quotelibrary.info, via myquotelibrary)

Aren’t you curious? When did it stop working? Why did it stop working? Did we bring out the worst in each other? Was it just one person’s fault or both of us? Aren’t these questions everyone wants to ask when they split up with someone?

—His ‘n’ Hers by Mike Gayle (via lostinthesounds)

lostinthesounds:

When you can feel it all coming to an end and there’s nothing you can do except let it and all you want to do is hang on for dear life but you can’t and it feels like you’ve been punched in the stomach and you just want to curl up and cry. Yeah, it’s a shitty feeling.

The way I need you is a loneliness I cannot bear.

—The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (via lostinthesounds)

Sometimes, when you’re so sad you don’t know what to do, it helps to be angry.

—Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (via lostinthesounds)

She touched my face. ‘I will never forget you. I can never forget you.’

—The Stone Gods, Jeanette Winterson (via helplesslyamazed)

(Source: quote-book)