Khobnoom

“There was a time this wasn’t toxic. There was a time you were my safe habour in a storm, the lighthouse leading me home. There was a time your arms kept me warm when my body was empty and cold. There was a time that your smile could dig me out of the grave I had dug for myself. Somewhere along the line you became the storm, you were cold and cruel and suddenly you were in the dirt digging with me. I don’t know where this went wrong, maybe there is only so much of my crazy that you could take, maybe you liked the idea of loving a sad girl but the reality never lived up to the expectation. As good as it was when you loved me, the feeling of an empty bed when you left was so gut-wrenching that I wish I never knew what it was to be loved by you.”

— Once upon a time…

Details in the Dark - Musée d’Orsay

Photographed by Frederick Ardley

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“I can say with great certainty and absolute honesty that I did not know what love was until I knew what love was not.”

— Unknown

“At some point you just have to let go of what you thought should happen and live in what is happening.”

— Unknown

““What it feels like to love someone who doesn’t love you?” “It makes you want to stop feeling things. It’s like bleeding without blood.””

— (via girlbehindthisblog)

AN ILLUSION

A lover who wouldn' leave me crying,

who would treat me like a queen,

A lover who would never want to lose me,

A lover who would find beauty in my somber face,

A lover who would have my back at the end of a hard-pressed day,

A lover who would assure me that I'm enough and I'm worth it.

“I see a girl so sad. She lost the only man she ever loved.”

— R.R.

“There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Even at your best you will never be right for the wrong person.”

— Unknown