βWhen I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.β
β Albert Camus,Β A Happy Death (via coral)
Naomi Campbell, Vogue, Photo by Peter Lindbergh, June 1990.
βIβm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that weβre all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth weβll ever have, and I am in love with you.β
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John Green,Β
The Fault in Our StarsΒ (via coral)
Person: hey, how are you?
Me: Iβm okay, wbu?
Me internally: Iβm not really okay. In fact Iβm the farthest thing from okay. But I donβt want to say that Iβm not okay bc then itβs going to be awkward. Youβre going to question me and ask me whatβs wrong and Iβm not going to be able to tell you bc I donβt know whatβs wrong. I feel this internal pain 24/7 and I canβt seem to find the source of it no matter what I do. When Iβm not feeling numb Iβm feeling like a nervous wreck and sometimes I rather kill my self on the spot then think about going out into public, being around people, or even being alone. And I canβt tell you I donβt know whatβs wrong because that just sounds so stupid and like I canβt guess and say whatβs wrong bc then if I do we end up having a pointless conversation of you trying to comfort me. Then not only do I have to hide my anxiety and depression while talking to you, but now I have to hide my anger that I have for no reason. So yes, I think itβs best if we just say weβre okay and hope for the best.
βTo love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.β
β C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
by Noah Sammak