"Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness."

Kurt Vonnegut  (via nofatnowhip)

(Source: oh-deir)

"The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did."

Erica Jong

"But you can’t regret the life you didn’t lead."

Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (via blissfully-oblivious)

"Before all hope died I used to have this stupid dream that shit could be saved, that we would be in bed together like the old times, with the fan on, the smoke from our weed drifting above us, and I’d finally try to say the words that could have saved us."

Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. (via basicaquatics)

"I liked when you spoke to me in my language. I could love myself and think myself worth loving."

Sandra Cisneros, Never Marry a Mexican. (via basicaquatics)

"Let’s not talk. We’re no good at it. With you I’m useless with words. As if somehow I had to learn to speak all over again, as if the words I needed haven’t been invented yet. We’re cowards. Come back to bed. At least there I feel I have you for a little. For a moment. For a catch of the breath. You let go. You ache and tug. You rip my skin."

Sandra Cisneros, Never Marry a Mexican. (via basicaquatics)

"But love don’t make things nice. It ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren’t here to make things perfect. The snowflake is perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us. We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and die."

Moonstruck (1987)

"I loved her for so long. Our past trails behind us like a comet’s tail, the future stretched out before us like the universe. Things happen. People get lost and love breaks."

Jonathan Tropper, This is Where I Leave You.

"You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you’ve lost."

Jonathan Tropper, This is Where I Leave You.

"I would have done the same thing I did. I would have put all my energy into loving someone that wasn’t you. I would have tried in vain, every day, to not think about you, and what could have been. What should have been. I would have tried to convince myself that there’s no such thing as true love, except for the love you yourself make work, even though I know better…. The bottom line is I never had any business marrying anyone who wasn’t you."

Jonathan Tropper, Plan B.

"The universe, I’d learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back."

Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail.

"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird.

"We are all smiling in the picture, three brothers having a grand old time just playing around in the living room, no agendas, no buried resentments or permanent scars. Even under the best of circumstances, there’s just something so damn tragic about growing up."

Jonathan Tropper, This is Where I Leave You.

"You’re terrified of being alone. Anything you do now will be motivated by that fear. You have to stop worrying about finding love again. It will come when it comes. Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you."

Jonathan Tropper, This is Where I Leave You.

"We all start out so damn sure, thinking we’ve got the world on a string. If we ever stopped to think about the infinite number of ways we could be undone, we’d never leave our bedrooms."

Jonathan Tropper, This is Where I Leave You.