الجميلات هُنَّ القويات.. يأسٌ يضيء ولا يحترقْ
“I thought I should be alone until loneliness had no meaning, but knowing if I am right is an ugly luxury. May my heart be louder in the endless test I overlook for a sure sign. I fear my last excuse will be that I didn’t know what to do.”
— Killarney Clary, from “Who Whispered Near Me”
taking a cigarette out onto the balcony to jump off the building
or taking the thought of
jumping off the building
out onto the balcony to smoke a cigarette
“Wherever you fall, oh soul, the night knows it not. For there’s nothing but the dumb fear of many beings.”
— Peter Huchel, from “Winter Psalm”, translated from the German by
Judy Gahagan
“Every person I’ve ever loved has some how become toxic to me. A living, breathing reminder of why I was always better off alone. I love too hard, too quickly and then sometimes I don’t love enough. I guess I’m just bad at love.”
—
Kristie Betts
“But back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.”
— Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her
“Be with someone who will take care of you. Not materialistically, but take care of your soul, your well being, your heart.”
— (via purplebuddhaquotes)
“And I ? May I say nothing, my Lord ?”
— Oscar Wilde’s last words before being led from the courtroom following his second trial, 25 May 1895.
“She sat on the kitchen floor with broken stars in her eyes and burnt promises on her tongue, and she told him, “Your life would be so much easier without me.” So he sat by her side, close enough that their arms and hips and legs touched, and he said, “But not better.””
— excerpt from a book I’ll never write
