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“We don’t realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone.”

— Cecelia Ahern

“Solitude is dangerous. It’s very addictive. It becomes a habit after you realize how peaceful and calm it is. It’s like you don’t want to deal with people anymore because they drain your energy.”

— Jim Carrey

“When I say, I love you, it’s not because I want you or because I can’t have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I’ve seen your kindness and your strength. I’ve seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are.”

— Joss Whedon

“Growth is painful. Change is painful.But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.”

— Mandy Hale

“This was always going to happen.

She’s been dead since the beginning.”

- Aeschylus, Aeschylus: The Oresteia

“After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great. To escape the cognitive mode of experience, to transcend the accident of one's moment of being.”

- Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“You’re not a kid anymore. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It’s simple. It’s your right.”

— Unknown

“Her brown eyes were untranslatable…She was made entirely of a sweetness bordering on tears.”

— Clarice Lispector, from “The Servant”, Complete Stories (trans. Katarina Dodson)

“The worst distance between two people is misunderstanding.”

— Law of Attraction

True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.

Kiera Cass

“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light.”

— Unknown

“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”

— Albert Einstein

Towering Trees

Stop looking at the walls, look out the window.

ig credit: theslowtraveler.

by Marat Akhmetvaleev

My bedroom windows after a summer storm

Kerry Egan, On Living

kitchen ghosts

glow of the setting sun

One of the most beautiful sunrises I've ever seen

instagram @matialonsor

“Just because things hadn’t gone the way I’d planned didn’t necessarily mean they’d gone wrong.”

— Ann Patchett