#v

I am proud that I defy your categories. I am proud that I don't fit easily into any box. I am proud of all the things I am and all the things i can be. Question yourself every time you think you only see one thing in me. ↗

— David Levithan

#self-discovery

Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed. ↗

— Stanisław Lem

#closed-mindedness #discovery #humanity #ignorance #mankind

Because that's the thing about mean people: They make you think that the world will never work, that there are divides that you will fall into if you approach. It takes a whole lot of good people to fill in the breach created by a single mean one. ↗

— David Levithan

#self-discovery

And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic nor popular - but one must take it because it is right. ↗

— David Levithan

#self-discovery

He found solace in what he wrote. It was an attempt to discover who he was at the moment. ↗

— Brian Krans

#solace #writing #self-discovery

The way you kiss, the way you sing. The way you tell me everything. Will you take my heart? i´m offering it to you... ↗

— Angela Morrison

#derek #love #singing #love

I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget who you are. I forget that you're Jem's. I'd have to be the worst sort of person to think what I'm thinking right now. But I am thinking it. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#but-this-book-ruined-them #clockwork-princess #cp #love

When you find someone you want to spend forever with you, you don't let them go, whether forever turns out to be a day or a year of fifty years. Don't let the fear of losing them keep you from loving them. ↗

— Nicole Williams

#new-adult #romance #love

We weren’t ourselves when we fell in love, and when we became ourselves – surprise! – we were poison. We complete each other in the nastiest, ugliest possible way. ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#love

Besides, unrequited love is one of those things that all teen-agers have to go through, right? ↗

— Wendy Higgins

#unrequited-love #love