“You must allow yourself to outgrow and depart from certain eras of your life with a gentle sort of ruthlessness.”
— Katy Maxwell // girl of the earth
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“To fall in love with their soul before you fall in love with their touch, is to know it’s true…..”
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“I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
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John Green,
The Fault in Our Stars (via coral)
“I no longer wait, I live.”
— Rosario Castellanos, tr. by Magda Bogin, from “The Joyful Mysteries,”
“She wanted to say ‘Don’t leave me,’ but she couldn’t do it, not again. She was so tired of begging people to love her.”
— Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale