#ak

The dream was floating off satisfactorily on an inner sea. ↗

— Christopher Harman

#waking-up #dreams

My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#short-story

Happy birthday,” she said. “And next time? Eat the stupid cupcake. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#claire-danvers #cupcake #morganville-vampires #shane-collins #short-story

A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#risk-taking #risk

The only safe thing is to take a chance. ↗

— Mike Nichols

#only #safe #take #take a chance #thing

think when it's all over it just comes back in flashes, you know? It's like a kaleidoscope of memories; it just all comes back. But he never does. I think part of me knew the second I saw him that this would happen. It's not really anything he said, or anything he did ― it was the feeling that came along with it. Crazy thing is, I don't know if I'm ever going to feel that way again. But I don't know if I should. I knew his world moved too fast and burned too bright, but I just thought, 'How can the devil be pulling you toward someone who looks so much like an angel when he smiles at you?' Maybe he knew that when he saw me. I guess I just lost my balance. I think that the worst part of it all wasn't losing him. It was losing me. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#loss #love #love

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet. ↗

— Rumi

#each #fall #feet #finally #first

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words. ↗

— Elliott Erwitt

#photography #the-joy-of-photographing-people #photography

People with weaknesses get killed by the people who lack them. Notice I'm not dead. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#kerrigan #weakness #dead

Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars. ↗

— Violeta Parra

#stars