Tortured poet
{Franz Kafka Letters to Milena/ Franz Kafka, The Blue Octavo Notebooks}
—On Love, Marina Tsvetaeva
[text ID: I just want a humble, murderously simple thing: that a person be glad when I walk into the room.]
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“You’ve got to find yourself first. Everything else’ll follow.”
— Charles de Lint
i’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
“The fact that someone else loves you doesn’t rescue you from the project of loving yourself.”
— Sahaj Kohli
“I know this transformation is painful, but you’re not falling apart; you’re just falling into something different, with a new capacity to be beautiful.”
— William C. Hannan
“If it hurts more than it makes you happy then take the lesson and leave. Listen, it’s going to be OK. Some people are only rehearsals for the real thing.”
— Beau Taplin
“Wait for someone who love you differently. One who can see the fire in your soul, and the child in your laugh, and the ocean in your heart.”
— JmStorm
“I am going to marry somebody that makes me feel like a poem.”
— Lee Smith, Fair and Tender Ladies