“I Know This Transformation Is Painful, But You’re Not Falling Apart; You’re Just Falling Into

“I didn’t want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that’s really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you’re so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”

— Ned Vizzini

Questions about happiness generally assume that we know what happy life looks like. Happiness is often described as the result of having a great many ducks lined up in a row—spouse, offspring, private property, erotic experiences—even though a millisecond of reflection will bring to mind countless people who have all those things and are still miserable.

Rebecca Solnit, “The Mother of All Questions”

“Someone can be madly in love with you and still not be ready. They can love you in a way you have never been loved and still not join you on the bridge. And whatever their reasons you must leave. Because you never ever have to inspire anyone to meet you on the bridge. You never ever have to convince someone to do the work to be ready. There is more extraordinary love, more love that you have never seen, out here in this wide and wild universe. And there is the love that will be ready.”

— Nayyirah Waheed

this. this one.

I just can't get u out of my head

“Do not be afraid to walk the path that you must go just because you cannot see the end. The path becomes clearer as you continue to go on.”

— Unknown

you promised me the world

and left it shattered

― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

in my heart it is not dark

the rain is pouring and shattering on the floor

like glas

bursting into million pieces

pain freezing like ice

but burning myself

fading away

My alone feels so good. I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.