"You like him because he’s a lost boy. Believe me, I’ve seen it happen before. But do you know what happens to girls who love lost boys? They become lost themselves. Without fail."
- David Levithan, Every Day
"It’s one thing to fall in love. It’s another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love."
- David Levithan, Every Day
"Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and not much to listen to; while things that are uncomfortable, palpitating, and even gruesome, may make a good tale, and take a deal of telling anyway."
- J.R.R. Tolkien
"But sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes we are sad but we don’t really know we are sad. So we say we aren’t sad. But really we are."
- Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-Time (via faintsmiles)
(via faintsmiles)
"It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?"
- Jonathan Safran Foer (via thepaintedbench)
"We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world."
- C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain (via thepaintedbench)
"You never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is The Night (via timedoesnotexisthere)
(via bookoflonging)
Lemony Snicket’s short letters for his dead ex-fiancee written in his books “A Series of Unfortunate Events”
"How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it."
- Paulo Coelho, Brida (via 13neighbors)
"How terrible it is when you say I love you and the person on the other end shouts back ‘What’?"
- J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (via 13neighbors)
