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.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
You took my heart and you held it in your mouth, and with a word all my love came rushing out.
Florence Welch (via wrists)
That’s the thing about pain…it demands to be felt.
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (via kari-shma)
Gravity | So You Think You Can Dance
Not seeing you hasn’t made my life any easier than I thought it would make it. By now, I thought somebody else would be on my mind. I thought I would be waiting for somebody else to talk to me, or always wondering what somebody else was doing. But you have this way of sticking around, even when you’re not there. And when you do show up, every memory of you, every emotion I have ever felt about you comes rushing back before I even have a chance to fight them off.
(via thesecretletter)
(Source: thesecretletteroldposts)
What People Won’t Tell You About Love
People won’t tell you that loving someone often feels like a full-time job. It doesn’t always come easy or natural. It’s like a skill that needs to be perfected over time.
Am I loving you, right? Let me know if I need to do better. I want to do better.
There are good lovers and bad lovers. There are people who were born to love and others who need practice. You might be the latter. You might get fired from your job a few times before you land somewhere that makes sense.
People won’t tell you that love is about establishing a rhythm with someone. It feels like a choreographed dance. You have to take the right steps. Otherwise, you’re going to fall flat on your face.
People won’t tell you that love can feel too intense. Like it’s going to break your body in half and cause your heart to bleed out. These moments, while amazing, can leave you scared. They can leave you shaken and feeling extra cautious. Do you want to love someone so much? Is it good for you? Should you retreat?
Just because I’m with a man doesn’t make him a master, doesn’t even necessarily make him worthy of love, of my love. And I now realize, maybe for the first time in my life, that my capacity for love is incredibly deep and that for me to give this to a man he has to fully understand, and respect what that means. Too few do. They’re into pillaging, rummaging around, doing a little Viking stuff! But most women these days realize that’s not enough, boys!
Tori Amos
We kissed until we felt our lips swollen
from Submarine
Sometimes it’s better for two people to break up so they can grow up. It takes grown-ups to make a relationship work.
One More Chance
He knew why he wanted to kiss her. Because she was beautiful. And before that, because she was kind. And before that, because she was smart and funny. Because she was exactly the right kind of smart and funny. Because he could imagine taking a long trip with her without ever getting bored. Because whenever he saw something new and interesting, or new and ridiculous, he always wondered what she’d have to say about it—how many stars she’d give it and why.
Attachments (Rainbow Rowell)
(Source: wordsthat-speak)
We loved with a love that was more than love.
Edgar Allan Poe (via kari-shma)
Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan, Last Flight, 2009
You know, they say that there is a part
of the human chest that if you strike it hard enough
the person’s heart explodes. This sounds like such a lie
that I have to believe it’s the truth. If I were science,
I’d never tell anyone where this place is. If I were science,
I’d have named this place after you.
excerpt from “Not As Smart As I Think I Am,” Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz
(Source: atomiclanterns)
I’ve changed since I’ve known you. Not because you made me into someone else — but because you showed me a path I’d never paid attention to, and I chose to follow it.
Tammara Webber, Good For You
