#ones

There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#honesty #intent #internal-self #love #secrets

People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn’t bare the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn’t bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn’t even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn’t bear not to. ↗

— John Green

#death #loved-ones #death

To love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-wayland #the-mortal-instruments #love

Honestly I don't know why i have these parties" "Because of your cat" "That's true. Chairman Meow deserves my every effort ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-bones #humourous #magnus-bane #magnus-bane

If you insist on disavowing that which is ugly about what you do," said Magnus, still looking at Alec, "you will never learn from your mistakes. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-bones #learning #magnus-bane #mistakes #magnus-bane

He who destroys a good book, kills reason itself. ↗

— John Milton

#honesty #john-milton #random #reason #truth

Often people that tell others they are "extremely polite" when the situation calls for tact and bluntness are not actually polite people. Instead, they hide behind the word “polite” because they have low self esteem or hidden agendas. Sadly, they impolitely confuse the hell out of everyone, send mixed signals, which then makes people question their sanity and motives.

— Shannon L. Alder

#anxiety #bluntness #fear #games #honesty

The things about others that irritate, annoy, and unsettle us are the very things we have not accepted and embraced about ourselves ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#acceptance-of-others #r-alan-woods #r-alan-woods

How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it a secret from yourself as you woke daily so far from home? She had put billboards and roads between them, throwing roadblocks behind her and ripping off the rearview mirror, and thought that would make him disappear? ↗

— Alice Sebold

#home

If a woman is given only a limited amount of time to spend with the man she loves, she endures the separation by constantly recalling and reliving every moment down to the finest detail. ↗

— Lucy De Barbin and Dary Matera

#break-up #dary-matera #elvis-presley #endure #love